Sociological Imagination - Racial and Ethnic Minorities - Lecture Slides, Slides of Sociology

Download Sociological Imagination - Racial and Ethnic Minorities - Lecture Slides and more Slides Sociology in PDF only on Docsity! SYolei(e) (ele hy The Sociological Imagination and Race and Ethnicity C. Wright Mills and the Sociological Imagination • Understanding our own lives involves understanding the history and current status of the society in which we live. • Perspectives (Conflict/Consensus) • Tools (ethnography, statistics) • Challenge conventional wisdom: the common understanding of a situation. docsity.com Racial Profiling of Muslims and Arabs • Targeting 5,000 young men from Muslim countries for questioning after 9/11, 2001. • FBI: talk to everyone who might have information • Muslim leaders: racial profiling • What do you think: was this good or bad? docsity.com What sociological questions can we pose?(C. Wright Mills) • How are racial and ethnic relations structured? • How do racial and ethnic relations compare to the past and other countries? • What does the past and current state of racial and ethnic relations suggest about our “human nature”? docsity.com Applied to racial profiling • What is the structure, extent, nature, and form of racial profiling? • How does racial and ethnic profiling here compare to other countries and the past? • What does racial profiling reveal about our human nature? – Racial divide – We have not resolved all of our issues docsity.com The Ecological Indian • Were Indians the original environmentalists? docsity.com Latinos: A Biography of the People • Allowing people to tell their own histories and stories • Looking at different Latino groups separately docsity.com