THE SOCIOLOGICAL PERSPECTIVE SOCIOLOGICAL PARADIGMS AND THEIR USES.
Sociology 646 The Sociological Imagination and Race and Ethnicity.
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Sociology 646
The Sociological Imagination and Race and Ethnicity
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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.
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Example: Racial Profiling
• Blacks, Hispanics– Orlando, 1992: Road with 5% black drivers
and 70% of stopped drivers black
-- Maryland, 1998: Road with 20% black drivers and 70% of stopped drivers black
-- Illinois, 1999: 8% of state’s residents were Hispanic, while 25% of individuals stopped by drug interdiction units were Hispanic
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What are some possible explanations of these
statistics?• Negative
– Prejudice and discrimination– Poor training– Bad policing
• Positive– Higher rates of illegal activities
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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?
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What sociological questions can we pose?
• 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”?
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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
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Applied to Segregation on College Campuses
• Definition
• Nature and Structure? (Examples)
• Compared to the past?
• What does this tell us about ourselves?
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Applied to UNC situation
• Facts: Freshmen reading assignment; book about the Koran; led to legal attempts to stop (separation of church and state)
• Nature and Structure?
• Compared to the past?
• What does this tell us about ourselves?
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Some classic examples
1. An American Dilemma by Gunnar Myrdal (1944)
2. The Declining Significance of Race by William Julius Wilson (1978)
3. Legacies: The Story of the Immigrant Second Generation by Alejandro Portes and Ruben Rumbaut (2001)
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Mitchell Duneier: Sidewalk
• Slim’s Table
• Ethnography: Participant Observation
• Class, race, and gender issues
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Mary Waters: Ethnic Options
• Motivated by own ethnicity (really Irish)
• Qualitative interviews
• Significance of European ethnic identities and difference from racial identities
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Schuman, Steeh, Bobo, Krysan: Racial Attitudes
• Based on statistical analyses of survey data
• Encyclopedic: lots of information and analysis
• Bottom line: endorse equality, differ over means