University of Phoenix Material Appendix E Part I Define the following terms: |Term |Definition | |Racial formation |Omi and Winant (in Racial Formation in the United States, NY: Routledge, 1986/1989) have a | | |dialectical definition of race and racial formation. A race is a very definite social construction | | |which alters over the course of time due to historical and social pressures. | |Segregation |is the separation of humans into racial groups in daily life.
Visitors would have been better served had they been made aware that race is only half of the equation. Racism occupies the other half, and each implies the other. An exclusive emphasis upon race would lead to enumerations of physical characteristics in the absence of a framework that could organize and evaluate them. Racism performs that role, while race selects groups marked for racial defamation. The downplaying of racism may be a consequence of an incorrect understanding of the former’s relation to race.
Formally, racial categories appeared to be biological which contrast with the view of the current generation that impact the social status of the society. The ethical race connections that exist among people appear to be mutually exclusive. However, the situation may be overlapping without notice. This brings in the idea of invisibility of race within the community. People tend to assume the existence of race as an inferior fact yet it exists as a major problem within the community.
Diversity Worksheet Jorge A. Hernandez ETH/125 December 6, 2013 Jennifer Carroll Diversity Worksheet 1. What is diversity? Why is diversity valued? The term "diversity" is used when we refer to human qualities (visible or invisible) that are different from our own and those groups that that we belong to. Those dimensions or demographic variables may include and may not be limited to race, religion, color, gender, national origin, disability, sexual orientation, age, education, geographic origin, and skill characteristics.
Conformity takes place when one sees his or her own race as inferior and learns to identify with the dominant and superior race, such as the White Americans. Dissonance happens when there are contradictory attitudes or feelings between one’s racial and cultural identity with that of the
It can also be seen like this in the present day. Murdock's definition does not cover the types of family that differ from the traditional family structure. Eventually most sociologists adopted a definition based on the idea of kinship and limited to the function of childcare. The debate over the universality and necessity of the nuclear family began in the early twentieth century. Pioneer anthropologist Bronislaw Malinowski (1913) stated that the nuclear family had to be universal because it filled a basic biological need—caring for and protecting infants and young children.
Currently, there are probably over a thousand different ethnic groups and cultures across the world with their own languages and ways of pronouncing words respectively. This language (accent) inherently shows up when they are trying to speak in a language other than their own. As Baldwin explained earlier in his essay, the English that we know to be probably the most common Language spoken across the world is characterized by different accents across the world in the mouths of its users (263). For example, a typical American person does not sound the same way an African person would sound when speaking in English. This is because the land (ancestor’s language) makes an American person’s English quite different from that of the African person.
Family and Household Diversity It is difficult to define the family, instead it is better to refer to a range of family and household types. The most identifiable and common family and household types include nuclear families, where a married or cohabiting couple have dependant biological children; extended families consist of more than one generation; reconstituted families are the result of a remarriage; same sex gay households and a single person household, wherby 90% are headed by women and even groups of friends, these are just a few of the many diverse household types in Britain today. This assignment will discuss the wide range of ethnic, social and class backgrounds in the UK and also of the importance of diversity in the family and household forms. Sociologists are in general agreement that the family has several core functions which may be seen as essential to the reproduction and maintenance of society. Question 1 The term ‘family’ is defined as a distinct group in society whose members are related to one another by ties of either blood or marriage.
Family is defined differently depending on the culture one associates the term with. Within in different cultures are different roles for each family member as well. Perhaps some of the proudest family roles come from the Japanese, American, and Mexican cultures. While family roles are similar among these three cultures, the family roles and interpretations are different, due to the evolution of then nuclear family. According to Barbara Miller, the nuclear family defined refers a domestic unit containing one adult couple married or partners, with or without children (2007 p. 218).
INTRODUCTION There is a strong disagreement on the question whether identities in society are socially constructed or naturally formed. Perhaps the disagreement is because of the common definition of identity. The definition of identity as a “social category” captures almost all groups in our society – those believed to be socially constructed like “engineers as a category of people in society” and those believed to be naturally formed like “religious groups”. This paper will focus on ethnic identity, its formation and how formed ethnic identities affect relations in society. Ethnic Identities are socially constructed.