SOC 019 Study Guide - Midterm Guide: Invisibility, Intensify, Keystone Pipeline

• School: University of Vermont
• Department: Sociology
• Course: SOC 019
• Professor: Noriko Matsumoto

Document Summary

The significance of imagery in popular culture. Popular culture has been used to support dominant ideology. Invisibility of racism in popular culture today. Treatment of racism focuses on interpersonal interactios thus dismissing is really happening) the structural legacy of racism. Week 6: patterns of intergroup relations, privilege and color-blind ideology. Accepts the status quo for personal security. Society"s rezction shapes one"s sense of self. Social conditioning diferential treatment, or both- belief in group"s inferiority. The pattern of expectation and reaction may produce desirable or understandable results. Experience hositility and conflict from above and below (social class system) 2009- the # of hate groups has increased by 54% since 2000. Race, sexual orientation, religion, ethnicity/national origin, disability. Economic competition between multiple groups of laborers with wage differentials. Is this really what happened in the us> Simultaneously interact with relative equality in the larger society. Systemic - makes holders of privilege unaware of the privilege.