NACIREMA: UPDATING A CLASSIC TO SEE YOUR OWN CULTURE …
网页2014年5月31日 · Nacirema, that “exotic”, far-off place where people do “strange” things is one of the best ways to help students look at American culture as an observer rather than as the standard by which all other cultures should be compared. The paper, written by University of Chicago trained anthropologist Horace Miner was originally published in 1956.
White Trash: The Social Origins of a Stigmatype
网页2013年6月21日 · The stigma of white trash remains an active part of our fevered cultural imagination, even as some try to reclaim the phrase as a badge of rebellious honor. But few who use the term today—either proudly or as a shaming slur—seem to know about its deep historical entanglements with the politics of sex, race, and class.
Colorblindness vs. Race-Consciousness—An American Ambivalence
网页2013年7月24日 · Colorblindness vs. Race-Consciousness—An American Ambivalence. Meghan A. Burke. Special Feature. July 24, 2013. Consider the setting: a racially diverse urban neighborhood where organizers and most residents take a tremendous amount of pride in their community’s racial diversity. But many still think the black kids in their community don ...
The Society Pages
网页The Society Pages (TSP) is an open-access social science project headquartered in the Department of Sociology at the University of Minnesota
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网页Lisa Wade, PhD, is the founder of Sociological Images. Born and raised in California, she earned a BA in philosophy from UC Santa Barbara, an MA in human sexuality from NYU, and a PhD in sociology from the University of Wisconsin, Madison. She is an Associate Professor at Tulane University in New Orleans, with appointments in Sociology, Gender ...
Virginity as a Social Construction - There's Research on That
网页2019年11月26日 · Virginity as a Social Construction. Allison Nobles and Amber Joy Powell on November 26, 2019. Research shows that by age 18, 65% of people in the US have had sexual intercourse. Graph via Guttmacher Institute. Recently, the American rapper T.I. acknowledged that he attends gynecological examinations with …
The social construction of race: fuzzy boundaries
网页2020年9月10日 · The social construction of race: fuzzy boundaries. Racial categories are not fixed, innate, or rooted in biological categories. At best biology can find commonalities within population clusters which is different from race (or nationality). This makes racial categories a product of the social context and an expression of power.
The Emmett Till Antilynching Act and the History of Anti-lynching ...
网页2022年8月30日 · Wells shared the truth about lynching in her publications Southern Horrors and A Red Record.In A Red Record, Wells tabulates statics and provides detailed descriptions of lynchings that occurred across the United States.Wells makes the case that since Emancipation, there had been a series of three excuses made by whites to …
Who is the Millennial Generation? | Pew Research
网页2011年10月4日 · What works. Pew Research has created a tidy series of interactive graphics to describe the demographic characteristics of American generational cohorts from the the Silent Generation (born 1928 – 1945) through the Boomers (born 1946 – 1964), Generation X (1965 – 1980) [this is a disputed age range – a more recent report from Pew ...
The US Census and the social construction of race
网页2015年10月2日 · Social and biological scientists agree that race and ethnicity are social constructions, not biological categories. The US government, nonetheless, has an official position on what categories are “real.”. You can find them on the Census: These categories, however real they may seem, are actually the product of a long process.