Theme:
- Social Stratification and Inequality: Structural Racism as White Supremacy & Structural Sexism as Patriarchy
Questions:
- What is structural inequality?
- How is structural racism understood as white supremacy?
- How is structural sexism understood as patriarchy?
Classes in Sociology:
- Structural/Systemic Inequality
- Social Inequality
- Race & Ethnicity
- Sex and Gender
Social Stratification and Inequality- Race and EthnicityNOTEWe will finish our discussion on deviance as it ties directly into our discussion on Structural Inequality. This includes finishing the discussion on The New Jim Crow & the short article on stealing a bag of potato chips. To Do for this class:
- Watch video: Monkey experiment
- Read: Systemic Racism: A Theory of Oppression
- Read: Patriarchy, The System
- Read until ” red stop here” but of course feel free to read the rest of the chapter if you want and have time.
Optional Material:In week 5, I provided you all with a lot of optional material on race in ethnicity when we discussed the social construction of race. If you didn’t get a chance to look over that material it is also useful for this weeks material on race and stratification.
This essay should be based on these questions but also analyzing the others: What are the similarities and differences in how the authors of Systemic Racism (Joe Feagin) and Patriarchy, the System (Allan Johnson) describe and define systemic inequality? What are the ways in which they describe inequality as systemic?
For this essay you should only use the material shared below. Do not use external sources to develop the essay.
https://www.mediafire.com/file/43ei3i4q41hqyi5/Systemic+Racism.pdf/file
https://www.mediafire.com/file/a9rkmbo2b18viem/Johnson,+Patriarchy+the+System.pdf/file
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WkT0BtfOB-M
