2 discussion payment

Q

*Discussion 1:*

The idea of privilege (including concepts such as White privilege, Male

privilege, Able bodied privilege, thin privilege, heterosexual privilege

etc)

tends to be one of the concept that gets the most push-back, particularly

from members of dominant groups. While most people are fairly on board with

ideas of discrimination poor treatment of minority groups they have a much

harder time seeing the advantages that come for simply being part of a

majority group.

What were your ideas of the concept of privilege before coming to this

class? Is this a concept that you have struggled with?

Watch the examples below and read these articles explaining privilege

<http://www.huffingtonpost.com/gina-crosleycorcoran/explaining-white-privilege-to-a-broke-white-person_b_5269255.html>

White privilege unpacking the invisible knapsack

<http://www.wvu.edu/~lawfac/jscully/Race/documents/whiteprivilege.pdf>

What is your understanding of the concept of privilege now?

How do these examples help with the understanding of privilege?

Why do you think privilege is such a difficult concept for people to grasp?

Because privilege is often based on stereotypes how do we combat it?

How do we undo privilege for majority groups (and thus equalize chances of

minority groups) without majority groups feeling they are being

discriminated against?

Post responses to at least 2 other students to continue discussion and

explore these ideas.

*Discussion 2:*

1. listen to parts one and two of This American Life: The problem we all

live with

<http://www.thisamericanlife.org/radio-archives/episode/562/the-problem-we-all-live-with>

How does this program illustrate racial inequality?

What are some long term effects of educational inequality?

Why is integration a good solution to inequality?

What theoretical perspective does this best fit?

Does this give us some ideas about how to solve other issues of racial

inequality?

2. Choose two of the following articles about gender issues and answer all

of the questions for each.

Search for at least one of the research articles cited and read it.

How does the sociological perspective differ from popular ideas on this topic?

What are the major issues of gender inequality that are addressed?

What are some possible solutions?

Evaluate this topic from at least 2 of the 3 sociological perspectives.

Sexual harassment in law professions

<https://thesocietypages.org/trot/2016/04/28/sexual-harassment-in-law-professions/>

Incarcerated women

<https://thesocietypages.org/trot/2016/01/19/incarcerated-women-in-a-double-bind/>

abortion stigma

<https://thesocietypages.org/trot/2015/10/26/shoutyourabortion-shouts-back-at-stigma/>

When women lead

<https://thesocietypages.org/trot/2015/05/11/when-women-lead/>

The politics of peeing

<https://thesocietypages.org/trot/2015/03/28/the-politics-of-peeing/>

pregnancy discrimination

<https://thesocietypages.org/trot/2015/01/14/the-second-sex-and-second-class-citizenship/>

harassment

<https://thesocietypages.org/trot/2014/11/05/harassment-online-and-on-the-street/>

mass-shootings-and-the-"man"ifesto

<https://thesocietypages.org/trot/2014/05/26/mass-shootings-and-the-manifesto/>

Sport and sexuality

<https://thesocietypages.org/trot/2014/05/12/michael-sam-sport-and-sexuality/>

soldier suicides

<https://thesocietypages.org/trot/2013/12/09/a-decline-in-soldier-suicides/>