Dalton Conley

Poverty in the United States has been a persistent issue for many decades. Conley (2011) defined poverty as being “a condition of deprivation due to economic circumstances.” The root of poverty is the cause of two major factors; a person’s average income, and the lack of opportunities to prosper. Although, the U.S government has tried to adopt legislation to end the nation’s poverty, no objective has been successful. By virtue of the high rates of poverty, there are many people that believe…

Many parents are concerned about what to name their new baby. Unique names are described to be harmful to the child and their success (Conley, 2010). However, giving a child a ‘normal’ name doesn’t fix the larger issue - racism in today’s society (Joshi, 2014). When parents are naming their children, they should not worry about the cultural roots the name comes from because children are going to be discriminated against for various other things. Plenty of research has been conducted explaining…

When sociologists say race is a social construct, they are not being soft-headed dolt; they are speaking an historical truth. It means that society decides how each race and ethnicity is defined. According to Dalton Conley “race refer to a group of people who share a set of characteristics.” It has to do with Socialization. None are born with racist attitudes, values or beliefs. We are born into social contexts, we have no information about ourselves or others. It is through the process of…

relationships. This can include any relationship that is really important to you. In the Book You May Ask Yourself, “Divide et impera is the role of a member of a triad who intentionally drives a wedge between the other two actors in the group” (Conley, Dalton). I have seen this happen a lot in front of me. One example is that my friend and her boyfriend were really close. They had a mutual friend that would always hangout with them. They were basically a group of three best friends. She was a…

Plainly, a great deal was difficult about understanding the activities in “The ‘Killing’ of Neni Bai”, and that is the way it should be. As someone who has not been socialized as a Hindu, or anything close to one, and as someone living in the overtly capitalistic America, with a life nothing like the ones shown through the eyes and words of Paul Winther, I should understand little about the point of view of the people described in “The ‘Killing’ of Neni Bai”. This includes the activities of:…

until it was overturned by Brown v. Board of Education of Topeka. Sparked by racism and discrimination, the Civil Rights Movement worked for equality and was extremely successful. However, their work has not solved the race problem as a whole. As Dalton Conley says: The Civil…

It is understood that high status is taken notice of and achieved early on based from social institutions (academics, involvement in clubs, and more) and takes prominence in determining one’s later occupation and income. When Conley first started attending Greenwich, the students were based upon background than skin tone to what set them apart from one another – this includes: political views (Ford versus Carter), class, and wealth. The students that had a greater social and…

home can blur the line between work and family because the two become intertwined. These two things, working home and small-scale artisan labor, can be very similar. Working from home and artisan labor can be compared to capitalism. According to Dalton Conley in, “You May Ask Yourself,” capitalism is an economic system in which property and goods are primarily privately owned. Working from home can cause tension and become distracting for the family member that is working from home…

economy of prisons” to rely “on racialized assumptions of criminality” (684). It’s a practice of making racist assumption to arrest, convict, and sentence those who are colored. In You May Ask Yourself written by Dalton Conley describes how this “practice” is primary deviance is. As stated by Conley, primary deviance is how a person thinks and acts towards someone based on their deviant acts that were the cause of being confined. The political economy views colored people to be the source of the…

Our text, You May Ask Yourself by Dalton Conley, defines functionalism as “the theory that various social institutions and process in society exist to serve some important (or necessary) function to keep society running,” (Conley 29). When applied to the concept of general inequality, this theory suggests that inequality is an unavoidable, necessary facet of human interaction. Functionalism results in a sort of evolution, where society slowly advances the longer each component works properly.…