Socialization and Stratification

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Socialization and Stratification
Learning ones gender, race, and class.
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Race and Ethnicity

• Types of Socialization Experiences

• Those focused on mainstream White culture
• Those focused on ones minority status
• Those focused on ones own ethnoracial cultural
  heritage

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Social Class

• Patterns of socialization vary by class
• Working Class more likely to emphasize
  conformity and respect for authority
• Middle/Upper Class more likely to emphasize
  independence and curiosity

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Understanding Interaction

• An Introduction to Several Keys

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Definition of the Situation

• Thomas Theorem
• If individuals perceive a situation as real, it
  is real in its consequences.

fear
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Default Assumptions

• What holds true in the simplest or most likely
  possible model of whatever situation is under
  discussion (i.e. what is usually the case).

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Famous Women

• Harriet Tubman
• Susan B. Anthony
• Helen Keller
• Margaret Sanger
• Jane Addams
• Sojourner Truth
• Eleanor Roosevelt
• Ida B. Wells
• Anne Bradstreet
• Carrie Chapman Catt

• Anne Hutchinson
• Harriet Beecher Stowe
• Elizabeth Cady Stanton
• Gloria Steinem
• Betty Friedan
• Mother Jones
• Clara Barton
• Amelia Earhart
• Victory Woodhull
• Molly Pitcher