NACIREMA: UPDATING A CLASSIC TO SEE YOUR OWN CULTURE …
WEBMay 31, 2014 · NACIREMA: UPDATING A CLASSIC TO SEE YOUR OWN CULTURE AS AN OUTSIDER. Nacirema, that “exotic”, far-off place where people do “strange” things is one of the best ways to help students look at American culture as an observer rather than as the standard by which all other cultures should be compared. The paper, written by …
White Trash: The Social Origins of a Stigmatype
WEBJun 21, 2013 · The stigma of white trash remains an active part of our fevered cultural imagination, even as some try to reclaim the phrase as a badge of rebellious honor. But few who use the term today—either proudly or as a shaming slur—seem to know about its deep historical entanglements with the politics of sex, race, and class.
The Emmett Till Antilynching Act and the History of Anti-lynching ...
WEBAug 30, 2022 · Movements against lynching have a long history – a history that many different defeats have marked. Between 1882 and the passage of the Emmett Till Antilynching act this year, seven sitting presidents have called for anti-lynching legislation, and nearly 200 anti-lynching bills have been introduced to congress. The triumph of the …
Norms, Normality, and Normativity - Sociological Images - The …
WEBSep 23, 2016 · Norms, Normality, and Normativity. Flashback Friday. Sociologists distinguish between the terms norm, normal, and normative. The norm refers to what is common or frequent. For example, celebrating Christmas is the norm in America. Normal is opposed to abnormal. Even though celebrating Christmas is the norm, it is not abnormal …
The social construction of race: fuzzy boundaries - The Society Pages
WEBSep 10, 2020 · The social construction of race: fuzzy boundaries. Racial categories are not fixed, innate, or rooted in biological categories. At best biology can find commonalities within population clusters which is different from race (or nationality). This makes racial categories a product of the social context and an expression of power.
Virginity as a Social Construction - There's Research on That
WEBNov 26, 2019 · Virginity as a Social Construction. Allison Nobles and Amber Joy Powell on November 26, 2019. Research shows that by age 18, 65% of people in the US have had sexual intercourse. Graph via Guttmacher Institute. Recently, the American rapper T.I. acknowledged that he attends gynecological examinations with his daughter to “check …
Does Social Media Make People Less Social?: A Research Note
WEBJan 3, 2018 · This also means that people who are generally less social remain less social online. However, this is not an effect of the medium, it is an effect of their existing style of social interaction. In short, the research shows that social media help build and maintain social relationships, supplement and support face-to-face interaction, and ...
Piaget’s Stages of Cognitive Development: Experiments with Kids
WEBSep 15, 2009 · Jean Piaget, a psychologist who published his most influential works from the late 1920s through the 1950s, is most known for his theory of stages of cognitive development. He suggested a four-stage model that children go through as they develop more complex reasoning skills. Children start out in the sensorimotor stage, which lasts …
Sex Discrimination in Sports and Society: Why Transgender …
WEBSep 7, 2023 · Nevertheless, it has already been signaled that the expected guidance will rely upon the same set of protections from sex, sexual orientation, and gender identity -based discrimination. But, because of sexed differences in bodies and widespread sex/gender segregation of school sports, schools will need to prove needs for …
Physiognomy: Faces, Bodies, and the “Science” of Human Character
WEBJan 30, 2015 · Physiognomy was the use of defined facial features to assess a person’s character or personality. Cesare Lombroso thought he could identify a “born criminal” based on his face, with worrying traits to watch for including a sloping forehead, high cheekbones and a flattened nose.