First Assignment
Choose one assignment from this class to reflect on. Make sure that you name which assignment it is. Please write about sociology class base on this power point assignment https://docs.google.com/presentation
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Write the equivalent two FULL pages (double-spaced, 12 pt. Times New Roman font) about what you have learned from this assignment. You can connect this assignment to your “Goal-Setting” discussion from week 1, or my “5 wishes” for the class.
If you like, you can choose one or two of the questions below to help guide you:
What skills do you feel this assignment helped you to develop the most?
Do you feel that in doing this assignment your academic skills have improved? If yes, how? If no, why not?
What skills do you feel you need to work on more? Explain your answer.
What would you change about the way you wrote this paper/did this assignment? (Think in terms of the time, place, and way in which you organized your project.)
How has this assignment helped you study for your other classes?
Setting goals is an indispensable thing for everyone to improve themselves. My three goals are: First, I must learn sociology well this semester and hope to develop communication and problem solving skills through learning sociology. My second goal is that I will try to get excellent grades in all my classes this semester, especially to prepare well for each exam and quizzes. My last goal for this semester is to use the knowledge I gain from sociology class and equip myself to understand methods in interpersonal communication and have a better understanding of how to expand my resources to achieve success more efficiently.
Second Assignment
Read Witt 13 and answer the following questions in your own words.
What is racial profiling? Provide examples of how law enforcement, government officials and/or ordinary citizens use racial profiling in the aftermath of the Michael Brown case. (in older book editions review Arizona racial profiling case: Joe Arpaio and Latinos). How might the contact hypothesis remedy profiling?
Discuss various ethnocentric practices historically used by those in power that have contributed to prejudicial attitudes towards racial and minority groups.
What is the social construction of race? Provide a symbolic interactionist perspective. How can this concept (social construction of race) be applied to Americans from multiple racial backgrounds?
Define the term model minority. Discuss which minority group is perceived as living up to that image. Discuss advantages and disadvantages of being a model minority.
Here is an additional article on the myth of the model minority from tolerance.org
Witt Ch. 131.
What is racial profiling? Provide examples of how law enforcement, government officials and/orordinary citizens use racial profiling in the aftermath of 9/11. (review Arizona case). How mightthe
contact hypothesis
remedy profiling?Racial profiling is the act of discrimination by law enforcement against an individual based on their racial or ethnical characteristics than their actions or behavior. The law
enforcement’s categor
ization of people based on how they look has increasingly becomeapparent within society. Racial profiling has caused some problems and concerns in the past,such as with Arizona passing an act which requires immigrants to carry legal documentsvalidating their immigration and gives the law enforcement the ability to inquire and check any
past offender’s immigration status based on suspicion that the person is not in the country
legally. These concerns have carried onto impacting how law enforcement, government officials,and ordinary citizens view Arabs or Muslims after 9/11. The destruction and tragedy the twoterrorists caused during 9/11 has made people regard Arabs and Muslims as suspicious threatsand resulted in the increased monitoring of these particular race of immigrants. The contacthypothesis may help lessen the prejudice associated with discrimination as it creates a commonground for racially different individuals to focus on maintaining a cooperative environment,setting aside their stereotypes of each other, and learning that they were not so different despite
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