Final Study Guide, part 2


Final Study Guide
SOC 6

Desmond and Emirbayer: 11. Toward Racial Justice

 

Know about the following:

 

1.       civic responsibility

 

2.       personal responsibility

 

3.       reaching a racially just society

4.       utilizing racial intelligence

5.       scientization of politics and public opinion introduced by Jürgen Habermas

 

6.       achieving racial justice in the economic field

 

7.       residential field guided by racial justice

 

8.       assimilation

 

9.       Kallen’s ideal of the hyphenated, culturally pluralistic society

                                  

10.   a recent survey that showed a percentage of college freshman listed “helping promote racial understanding” as one of their life goals

 

11.   diversity management training programs

 

12.   going to war, especially a war on racial domination

 

13.   levels we need to focus on in the struggle for racial justice

 

14.   disingenuous reflexivity

15.   racially sensitive reflexivity

 

16.   question we should ask ourselves when attempting to assess which forces control our imaginations and affect our thinking and behavior

 

17.   Many whites believe that racial equality already has been achieved, while many nonwhites hold that little has changed since the Civil Rights Movement.

 

18.   the record of America in changing majority attitudes, in guaranteeing legal and political rights, and in expanding socioeconomic opportunities for its disadvantaged minorities

19.   the politics of truth

 

20.   patriotism in a new American democracy

21.   hyphenation

 

22.   multiculturalism

 

23.   rigorous reflexivity

24.   honest reflexivity

 

25.   studies that show that most persons have deeply held negative associations

 

26.   reflexivity
 
 

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