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’