Racial formation is the process by which humans classify other human beings based on what they look like and where they come from. To racialize someone is to categorize someone; however, race is not natural, and is in actuality a product of sociohistorical processes. Because racial classifications are manmade, it is pivotal to consider the context and time period of racial systems because they change with history. They are a social construction rather than a biological reality, meaning they can be created, destroyed, and transformed. These processes can be observed when we look at how the Irish, who were initially subject to intense racial discrimination, adopted “whiteness,” or how the Chinese, who were also limited to strenuous physical labor, became the model minority.
Project 1 World Cultures Marko Jocic The City of Belgrade 1. Geographical Elements Belgrade is the capital City of Serbia, it’s located southeast of Europe and is one of the 29 regions in Serbia. It has a population of about 1.7 million and is located at the confluence of the Sava and Danube rivers where the Pannonian Plain meets the Balkans. Belgrade is the economic center of Serbia, over 21% of the population from Serbia lives in Belgrade and it covers 3% of the country’s territory.
Culture, with true consistency, has been continuously evolving throughout human history. Government, technology, and religion have all transitioned in some way over the course of our history, but a strange trend has appeared over the last two centuries. This trend has relatively nothing to do with the development of a specific value in society, but rather it points out the alarming rate at which society has been developing over the last two hundred years. To put this trend in perspective; the industrial revolution, which was the process of mechanizing industry in favor of increasing the output of consumer products, while at the same time catalyzing the process of urbanization, only took place two-hundred years ago - arguably. And in this short
When we talk about race, gender, sexual orientation and class issues, we implied that something was not conformed to the norms. I feel it’s critical to understand the social norms people hold. It’s amazing that only human beings are capable of elaborate symbolic communication and of structuring their behavior in terms of abstract preferences that we have called values. Norms are the means through which values are expressed in behavior. Norms generally are the rules and regulations that groups live by.
Solommon Yohannes October 5th, 2017 Sociology& 101 Mr. Woo Racial Inequality Viewed Through the Conflict Perspective Lens The racial inequality that we have in modern day blossomed from the historic oppression and comprehensive prejudice of minority groups. From the very beginning of “American” history, other groups of people who were not of European decent were discriminated against and treated inhumanely and without the smallest regard for their lives. Native American populations were decimated by diseases brought oversea by Europeans and forced from their ancestral lands by settlers to make room for their expanding populations.
Social Constructs are products of discrimination; race did not exist until racism existed, class did not exist until classism existed, and gender did not exist until sexism existed. These constructs occupy prominent positions in artwork, politics, as well as in social hierarchies. A social construct describes a mechanism developed by society, oftentimes with the intention of segregating and degrading people in order to establish power. When ideas are ‘social constructs’, it is not to say that said idea does not exist, but exists to castigate those for whom social constructs do not favor.
Culture of control is something that can make things go smoothly or make things go not as smoothly. Usually good cultures of control are successful while worse cultures of control are not as successful. With that said, the objective at hand is to describe both the United States and Soviet Union’s culture of control used on their scientists, people and allies and explain which was more effective and why. The paper will start off by explaining the two different countries cultures of control. This will include the topics of propaganda, treatment of people and workers, as well as how each country went about dealing with their “Germany”.
Intersecting layers of culture and power have the potential to be transformative, however both have been normalized in a way that grants certain privileges while creating and reinforcing structural inequalities for everyone outside the dominant narrative. This is powerful to note because it highlights the internalized consent of authority which forces conformity, otherwise people are criminalized when they challenge systems of power. Therefore, standard modes of functioning within society are a combination of how power is validated, as well as how culture is a driving force to validate that power by not questioning the authority of what people have known and survived off of. This trickles down into the subconsciousness of people’s minds, in
Slaves to Standardization The United States of America is an extraordinarily multi-cultural society and encompasses a wide variety of ethnicities, religions, languages, and ideologies, as well as a host of other cultural aspects. This requires us to embrace our differences and respect and learn from cultures other than our own, which is generally considered a positive development. However, there are several glaring exceptions to this philosophy of celebrating our differences. One such exception is evident in the political realm, where differences and disagreements seem to be equated with evil intent – I have lost count of how many of my acquaintances claimed that those voting for the other candidate (whichever that was) in the last presidential
Stuart Hall emerged as the leading expert in the field we now come to know as cultural studies in the 1960’s and 1970’s. (Procter 2004: 3) This British professor of sociology has devoted most of his time researching culture and race and why it matters so much to the human population in regards to classification. His focus is mainly on the subject of race, culture and society and his basic argument stemmed from this. “Questions of culture…are absolutely deadly political questions” – Stuart Hall Hall questioned these concepts of culture and race and why we feel the need to classify people into specific racial or cultural groups. He looked at racism and how shifts have been made with regards to how we classify people into these different racial groups.
Throughout history social scientists have been trying to examine the different parameters of race in terms of phenotypic characteristics, and cultural behaviors regarding the different groups that society construct’s. legally judges have had different rulings regarding the categorization of different ethnicities and groups within the United States. Many philosophers such as Kwame Appiah, and Scientists such as Dr. James Watson have had opposing arguments on the topic of race and whether it exists or not. In order to do so we need to examine the different definitions of race, and analyze them in order to see how race is a social construct, where people’s notions of race and their interactions with different races determine the way they perceive
In recent years, the Lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender (LGBT) community of Jamaica has become an international concern as individuals struggle to survive in the dangerously homophobic environment. The structural abuse, discrimination, and continued acts of violence have lead to hundreds of LGBT Jamaican citizens attempting to seek asylum in Great Britain, Canada, and the United States (Citation). In this paper, I will be investigating why the LGBT community Is the most persecuted group in Jamaica, how it relates to the human rights framework in terms of the rights violated and actions that are being taken, and why it matters. For many years, Jamaica has been called the most homophobic country in the world (Time magazine). Over 85% of
One of the major problems with supporting the protection of culture, as pointed out in chapter five of Equality Renewed, is the limitations that some members of certain cultures face. Although some cultures may seem to provide a range of options, they also tend to limit the options available by discouraging individuals from their freedom of choice, acting mostly with the goal of restricting choice (Sypnowich, 94). This I believe to be wrong, because making an individual feel trapped inside a culture can lead to resentment and an identity crisis. Inhibiting choice is essentially inhibiting one’s autonomy, which is moving in the wrong direction toward human flourishing.
Race, nationality and ethnicity Race and ethnicity are seen as form of an individual’s cultural identity. Researchers have linked the concept of “race” to the discourses of social Darwinism that in essence is a categorization of “types” of people, grouping them by biological and physical characteristics, most common one being skin pigmentation. Grouping people based on their physical traits has lead in time to the phenomenon of “racialization” (or race formation), as people began to see race as more of a social construct and not a result or a category of biology.
Assignment Unit 2 /Assessing submission Written Assignment Unit 2 Assessed submission Introduction to Sociology Written Assignment Unit 2 submitted on Tuesday, 9 February 2016, 11:41 AM Introduction One’s culture can be described as the values, norms, and beliefs that one’s society holds. We have different believe on different issues For example we believe that stealing from someone is wrong and stopping at red traffic lights while driving is right. But did you know that culture has both material and nonmaterial components? (Study.com, n.d)
