Welcome to SOC 1104: Race and Ethnic Relations

Prep

• No Reading Today

In Class

1. Low-Stakes Writing Assignment: What Are Your Goals for the Course?
2. Introductions and Attendance
3. Prologue: What Is Sociology?
4. Review of the Syllabus
5. For Next Time

For Next Time

• Ground Rules for the Classroom
• Matthew Desmond and Mustafa Emirbayer (2016), Ch. 1 (‘Race in the Twenty-First Century’): ‘A Biological Reality?’; ‘Whiteness’; ‘Race Is a Social Reality’; ‘Ethnicity and Nationality’; Thinking Like a Sociologist’