McIntyre’s The Practical Skeptic: Core concepts in sociology McIntyre Ch. 1 “Responding to Chaos”
Chapter one of McIntyre (2014) book is a brief history of sociology. She begins by looking into why it is people go into their chosen field of study. She believes that people often study what they fears, because they are trying to unravel the mystery of what they cannot explain. McIntyre (2014) then goes into detail about how human kind has evolved socially to discover how the heavens and the earth works. She speaks on who helped bring about those changes such as: Nicolus Corpernicus (On the Revolutions of Heavenly Bodies) (McIntyre, 2014 p.7), Galileo Galilei (Dialogue on the Two Great systems …show more content…
All of this was changed by industry and capitalism. But unfortunately social systems are not as open as they might seem. McIntyre speaks about how a dollar to one isn’t always a dollar for another due to higher mortgages and loan interest rates, bank fees, salaries, and the ability to pay tuition which earns degrees (which then equals more pay), as well as racial surtax (McIntyre, The Practical Skeptic core concepts in sociology 6th edition, 2014). The inequality also showed prevalent at car dealerships where people of color were offered less deals with higher interest rates than that of white people and even women fell into the discrimination. There for people who earn the least are often required to pay the most. McIntyre then gets into what prejudice is and how it differs from prejudgment. The difference being instead of learning from past experiences, prejudice is based on inaccurate info or illogical arguments, and even when showed the truth people tend to hold on to their prejudiced (McIntyre, The Practical Skeptic core concepts in sociology 6th edition, 2014). She then speaks about discrimination and how this occurs in four categories. One, being prejudice and discrimination. Four, being unprejudiced and not discriminating. But, 2 and 3 are inconsistent, for example in category two the person isn’t prejudiced but does discriminate. She then speak about how people fall into these categories without knowing it. She speaks of institutional discrimination and how people fall into these categories without realization as well. She explains of institutional discrimination and how people build in the discrimination into rules and regulation in society such as height requirements for jobs like the fire department, and how “isms” are discriminations at the institutional level, and is considered only when it happens
Chapter one of McIntyre (2014) book is a brief history of sociology. She begins by looking into why it is people go into their chosen field of study. She believes that people often study what they fears, because they are trying to unravel the mystery of what they cannot explain. McIntyre (2014) then goes into detail about how human kind has evolved socially to discover how the heavens and the earth works. She speaks on who helped bring about those changes such as: Nicolus Corpernicus (On the Revolutions of Heavenly Bodies) (McIntyre, 2014 p.7), Galileo Galilei (Dialogue on the Two Great systems …show more content…
All of this was changed by industry and capitalism. But unfortunately social systems are not as open as they might seem. McIntyre speaks about how a dollar to one isn’t always a dollar for another due to higher mortgages and loan interest rates, bank fees, salaries, and the ability to pay tuition which earns degrees (which then equals more pay), as well as racial surtax (McIntyre, The Practical Skeptic core concepts in sociology 6th edition, 2014). The inequality also showed prevalent at car dealerships where people of color were offered less deals with higher interest rates than that of white people and even women fell into the discrimination. There for people who earn the least are often required to pay the most. McIntyre then gets into what prejudice is and how it differs from prejudgment. The difference being instead of learning from past experiences, prejudice is based on inaccurate info or illogical arguments, and even when showed the truth people tend to hold on to their prejudiced (McIntyre, The Practical Skeptic core concepts in sociology 6th edition, 2014). She then speaks about discrimination and how this occurs in four categories. One, being prejudice and discrimination. Four, being unprejudiced and not discriminating. But, 2 and 3 are inconsistent, for example in category two the person isn’t prejudiced but does discriminate. She then speak about how people fall into these categories without knowing it. She speaks of institutional discrimination and how people fall into these categories without realization as well. She explains of institutional discrimination and how people build in the discrimination into rules and regulation in society such as height requirements for jobs like the fire department, and how “isms” are discriminations at the institutional level, and is considered only when it happens