Tuesday, May 1, 2012
Mexicans Americans and immigrants/how did Jews become white folks?
In the article " Mexican American and Immigrant Corporation by Edward E . Telles, Telles discusses how Mexican immigrants lifestyles and behaviors change over time after coming to America as generations pass on. I feel it's like that with every race and ethnicity.
In the article"How Did Jews become white folks? By Karen Brodkin, Brodkin and how race and racism continue to persist. In addition, particularly how the boundaries of whiteness are defined in relation to "black" and "others" as saying what should be..
Tuesday, April 24, 2012
In the video "People Like Us" a film by Andrew Kolker describes how social classes are separated , by the way we dress, where we live , look ,n materialistic sources. We have tribes in America and it can be defined by what we do or how much we make.In this video they show different classes of people (upper,middle,lower)speaking from their own perspective about what they may feel determines your social class.Class differences reveals different things about our hopes and fears .In the video I also notice the views of house many Americans are living especially the rich furniture wise as well, social class even goes as far as what you eats.the truth is everything about you that consist of making you happy, things to need to live ,what you were exposed to throughout life and everything about you defines your social class after watching this video.African americans that want better are judged as not being themselves because most view minorities as lower class or middle.
Sunday, April 22, 2012
Deviance
Most of the time deviance is observed as negative behavior when considering the violation of social norms. Breaking a social rule , or refusing to follow one.. I believe that every has some sort of deviant behavior all social changes began with some sort of deviance.
Thursday, March 1, 2012
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