SOCL 101 Salituro Final Reflection   This paper will ask you to reflect on our class and apply your understanding of sociology to your own life.  This assignment is due by the end of the scheduled final exam period for your class.  This is a firm deadline without exception.  Be sure to write in proper prose with correct grammar and spelling. Be sure to answer each part of the reflection that I outline below. Make your writing authentic – use details and make it specific to your own life so that the essay is unique and can only be applied to your lif ..read more

 Course Evaluation Personal evaluation.  Please fill out this anonymous course evaluation which helps me tweak the class to make improvements based on student feedback.  I really value your feedback and I want to continue to make sure that the course serves students the best it can.  Here is the SPR2024 evaluation.   LUC evaluation LUC also administers a course evaluation.  This is one way that the university evaluates my class and another data point for myself to continually improve my classes.  It is anonymous.  Please complete the survey when yo ..read more

 Pay Gap One of the most widely talked about disparities is the gender pay gap.   Sociologists have examined the income of females compared to males and through a number of different studies showing females are paid less (about 80%) than what males are paid.  Because of this widely studied disparity, the American Sociological Association published a 2019 public policy recommendation that concluded, a woman working fulltime, year-round in 2017 was typically paid just 80 cents for every dollar paid to a man working full-time, year-round.... Gender wage ga ..read more

Today's Lesson: How does the binary affect males (and put them at risk)? Now that you have learned how gender is socially constructed into a binary, we will examine one pole of the binary: masculinity.     Getting started Before we begin, please answer the following questions.  Answer each quickly with the first words that come to mind.  Please don't worry about foul language, just write the words that come to mind: Open the Google Form. QUICKLY, without thinking, brainstorm, the first three words that come to mind: 1. What are three word ..read more

Action items: Mahler and Kimmel's article here. CJ Pascoe's Dude You're a F** (For background info click here).        Google Form Here 1.  Before you begin, please answer this question in as many ways as you can (brainstorm):  Besides being different physically, how would your life be different if you were born a different sex? Today's Lesson:  What is gender and why is it confusing?  What does it mean that gender is a social construction? What is a binary and how does it contribute to the confusion? What evidence is there that g ..read more

Today's Lesson:  Asian What racism did Americans identified as "Asian" face historically? What are the timeline and demographics of Asian immigration to the US? What is the model minority myth and how did it get created? How is the model minority myth harmful? What is the perpetual foreigner stereotype? Hispanic What racism did Americans identified as Hispanic face? What are the timeline and demographics of Asian immigration to the US? How/why did the terms "Hispanic" and "Latino" get created? How do most Americans identified as Hispanic prefer to identify? Americans Racialized as ..read more

As I explained earlier, the US was founded primarily with the racial paradigm of white v. non-white.  This lens primarily applied to White Europeans and Black slaves for hundreds of years.  These two groups are the foundational racial groups in the US.  This lesson will focus on how racism leads to negative outcomes for Americans identified as Black and White.    Just like people are unique and dynamic, so is each racial group.  The racialization of each group has a unique history and racism affects each group differently.  For more info about the h ..read more

For HW: Please see this post about Jonathon Metzel's Dying of Whiteness and then choose to either: a) read the introduction to the book b) listen to the interview of Dr. Metzel with Mr Hayes c) read the transcript of the interview  d) (or you can do both b and c)     Implicit racism  Prejudices and stereotypes exist in our subconscious.  These hidden biases are called implicit bias.  Although implicit bias can be about myriad topics (gender, occupation, age), it can also promote racism.  Here is an explanation from Teachi ..read more

HW: Please see this post about Jonathon Metzel's Dying of Whiteness and then choose to either: a) read the introduction to the book b) listen to the interview of Dr. Metzel with Mr Hayes c) read the transcript of the interview  d) (or you can do both b and c)     Today's Lesson: How has race been socially constructed in the US? (What institutions have constructed race and why?) What is racism? Identify and explain Kendi's thesis from Stamped in relation to racism. What are the different types of racism - institutional, individual, explicit, implicit? What does Dubo ..read more

Please begin by reflecting on what you have already come to understand about "race" by answering numbers 1-6 using this Google form. On your marks...Prior Knowledge Questions: Answer the following questions off the top of your head.  Use what you have learned until now to answer.   1.  What is race?  Define it.  What determines what race a person is?   2.  Is race scientific? 3.  How many races are there?  4.  Name as many of the races as you can.   5.  What race are you?     6 ..read more