Census

Methods Participants Similar to the Martin, Bradford, Drzewiecka & Chitgopekar, (2003) study, data will be collected from a group of 300 or more white college students from the Midwest region of America. Additionally, data will be collected from 300 or more black college students from the southeast region of America. Specifically, students from Luther college and NCA&T university will be assessed by using a questionnaire from Martin, Bradford, Drzewiecka & Chitgopekar, (2003) study that was…

Ralph Ellison once said, “There must be possible a fiction which, leaving sociology and case histories to the scientists, can arrive at the truth about the human condition, here and now, with all the bright magic of the fairy tale (Ellison).” With the help of great sociological researchers like Dorothy Robert and Michael Root, this paper will expose some of the sociological fairy tales that exist here in today’s society that have been perpetuated for decades. Many times, there are issues that…

Furthermore, coming here has made me realize that Colombians are very conservative in comparison with Americans. People talk more openly about topics like sex, homosexuality and drugs, and there are a remarkably bigger number of people with tattoos and piercings. Considering this, the Colombian society is way more judgmental and even more with things that are out of the ordinary. Getting a tattoo would give me the disapproval of all my family and a lot of glares on the streets. Where I grew up,…

Who Am I; I am defined by my beliefs, morals, and values. Thus far, in my life I’ve been through a lot of hurt, pain, and deceit but overall I conquered. Today I stand a young woman of integrity and honor due to my culture. However, I will not say that my culture has had a tremendous impact in my life but overall it has shaped, and molded me into a woman of excellence. Within this essay I’m going to take you to a place you’ve never seen before. I’m going to take you to a journey towards my…

Subsequent to a careful analysis of two headlines from the New York Times, and their respective articles, it has become increasingly clear that there are apparent modern racial and ethnic distinctions. Within these particular articles there are quasi-unnoticeable stigmas and fallacies concerning racial and ethnic divisions, that should not remain unapparent. It is imperative that society begins to cognize these seemingly inconspicuous racial and ethnic representations (which are generally…

A New Kind of Ghetto My article I chose for paper option three is on the basis of Stockbridge in Britain no longer having a serious race problem. My article was found on Economist.com, titled ‘A New Kind of Ghetto.’ This article was written on November 9th, 2013, and covers the issues, improvements, and how one can evolve on the issue of race. Stockbridge Village is an island, and a home estate, built in the 1960s, to the people clearing out of Toxteth, and as well as inner-city slums as the…

A recent topic that has been given light in the last few weeks of class has been the differences between the idea of race and the concept of ethnicity. The terms are often misused or switched when discussed so it is important to recognize the differences between these two ideas. Knowing the difference between them is necessary in order to be politically correct when discussing the idea. Race is a socially constructed concept that society has created in order to classify members of society…

Growing Up White: How living in a white neighborhood formed me I grew up in Arlington Heights, Illinois. It is a village of 75,000 people located forty-five minutes north west of Chicago. Race was never an issue in my life. I never felt racially profiled, and never been judged for being white. Race is not something I am confident in talking about, and is not something I am comfortable discussing. I attended Rolling Meadows High School where twenty-five percent of the students are Hispanic,…

Interviewing a person can make you connect with that person on a more personal level. A person will learn more about their family, education, and morals just by talking with them. Interviews can become uncomfortable if the interviewer is not comfortable around the interviewee. Interviews are extremely beneficial in a way that a person will compare the answers they are asking to their own way of answering the questions. It makes a person think more into the questions than just asking them up…

Family is a diverse and complicated concept in which many researchers have come up with different conclusions. Family definition is not complete without the incorporation of race and ethnicity. Race and ethnicity complete the full definition of family. This is done by the incorporation of everyone’s history. In order to fully understand family focus should be placed in society as a whole, instead of section. Understanding the concept of the family is very difficult when it’s hard to define it.…