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    The book, Inequality in the Promised Land: Race, Resources, and Suburban Schooling by R. L’Heureux Lewis-McCoy uses an ethnography to examine everyday interactions between parents, students, teachers and school administration in order to understand why resources seldom trickle down to a district’s racial and economic minorities (2). Lewis-McCoy observed fourth-grade classrooms in two public elementary schools within the Rolling Acres Public Schools (RAPS) – River Elementary and Cherry Elementary…

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    As a Korean-American lesbian, I often wondered how other people of marginalized identities understand their sense of belonging in the larger society. I had not yet developed my sociological imagination to critically examine how larger social structures shape the ways people understand their social worlds. Now, my sociological training allows me to develop the theoretical, methodological, and organizational approaches necessary to explore how marginalized individuals navigate society,…

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    Ramsey Parra Sociology 150 Professor Loughlin 10/08/16 The idea of a Cosmopolitan Canopy, a term defined by sociologist Elijah Anderson, has been used to describe various locations throughout the greater New York City area. In this setting, people of color have a tendency to be to some degree calm and now and again even vivified in their presentation of self. Many of them are part of the working class, but there is a larger amount of them than white people. Ultimately, individuals of both…

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    Jones begins her article with a central question: Why does autocratic liberalization occur? In other words, why do autocrats carry out liberal ideas? For example, “holding an election, relaxing media censorship, or establishing a legislature”(pg 24)? This question is followed by various sub-questions: is it for the autocrats’ own self-interest and self-gain? She continues, stating that recent work on autocratic liberalization has focused on this rationalist approach, however she emphasizes that…

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    Clashes within the species started to occur, causing the prawns to later move into their own territory. In District 9, contact zones are highly occurring within interspecies when Wikus slowly transforms from a human to a prawn; a hybrid. Auto-ethnography is experienced first hand when the main character starts evolving into a Prawn. "A text in which people undertake to describe themselves in ways that engage with representations other have made of them" (Pratt…

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    In Anthropology, ethnographies incorporate social actors that can be both the ethnographer, or the individuals represented in them. These social actors provide many models of agency and possibilities for social change. Social change refers to a significant alteration in behaviors, values and cultures over a period of time. This paper will focus on the studies of Kath Weston, Lila Abu-Lughod and Lisa Rofel. Kath Weston brings out the issues on anthropological studies in her article “Lesbian-Gay…

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    My experiences of identity marginalization motivate my study of racial and sexual minorities. Growing up as a 1.5 generation Korean-American lesbian going back and forth between the white-dominated United States and male-dominated Confucius South Korean society, I struggled with people continuously doubting my abilities and potentials as an individual based on my race, gender, and sexuality. As a sociologist in training, I recognize that the “unfair treatments” I endured as an ethnoracial and…

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    My situated discourse project involved a “natural” recorded conversation between my two subjects, TD and ND, and me. The purpose of this experiment was to not only apply the skills that were learned in class in the real world, such as the Ethnography of Speaking, participant observation, and transcription, but also to see whether people communicate the way they believe they do, and compare their perceptions to reality. The following is derived from my data and observations. In order to…

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    Transnational Lives of New Immigrants, is a Professor of Sociology, Immigration Studies and Public Affair at the School of Public Affairs at Baruch College and the Graduate Center in the City University of New York (CUNY). Smith may specializations include Ethnography, Globalization, Ethnicity, and Migration. His foremost book, Mexican New York: Transnational Lives of New Immigrants won a Presidential award from CUNY and the American Sociological Association in 2008 as the overall Distinguished…

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    Do you remember what happened to indigenous people when Europeans arrived in South America in the XIV century with the desire to explore this land? They spoil the indigenous population not only with slave work and forest exploration, but spreading infections diseases among these people who had never contacted many kinds of pathogens. Hill and Hurtado (1996) has found that “first face-to-face contacts result in the death of between one third and half of the native population within the first five…

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