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Study Guide for Midterm 4, Aesthetics

Study Guide for Midterm 4 SOC 206   Desmond and Emirbayer: 8. Aesthetics   Know how to perform a triple reading on artistic practices.   Know about art during the nineteenth and twentieth centuries.   Know about material used by neoclassical European and American sculptors.   Know about minstrel shows.   Know about Amos ‘n’ Andy.   Know about the Harlem Renaissance.   Know about the world of high fashion.   Know about country music.   Know about ethnic plastic surgery.   Know about Abercrombie and Fitch.   Know about the white aesthetic.   Know about Saracenic architecture.   Know about the racist aesthetic.   Know about antiracist art.   Know about Trisha Rose, author of Black Noise: Rap Music and Black Culture in C...

study guide for midterm 4, education

Study Guide for Midterm 4 SOC 206   Desmond and Emirbayer: 7. Education   1.        Compare individuals with more education to those with little education.   2.        What did Christian missionaries do to get American Indian parents to send their children to boarding schools?   3.        Describe the boarding schools run by either Christian missionaries or the federal government for American Indian children.   4.        Why did whites work to deny blacks educational opportunities?   5.        Know about Booker T. Washington, W.E.B. Dubois, and the Little Rock Nine   6.        What concepts could still be found within state-approved textbooks as late as the 1950s?   7.        Know examples o...

gender representations -- example of content analysis

www.humboldt.edu/sociology/downloads/senior_projects/2006_Norman.pdf

bathroom graffiti -- example of content analysis

https://www.humboldt.edu/sociology/downloads/senior_projects/2004Clingman.pdf

transnational marriage -- example of content analysis

https://www.humboldt.edu/sociology/downloads/senior_projects/2008_Thrapp.pdf

A TASTE FOR PUNISHMENT: Black and White Americans' Views on the Death Penalty and the War on Drugs -- example of survey

Cambridge Journals Online - Du Bois Review: Social Science Research on Race - Abstract - A TASTE FOR PUNISHMENT: Black and White Americans' Views on the Death Penalty and the War on Drugs

Devah Pager - example of experiment

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Devah Pager - Research Pager, Devah, Bruce Western, and Bart Bonikowski. 2009. "Discrimination in a Low Wage Labor Market: A Field Experiment." American Sociological Review  74(October):777-799.