Rural Sociology 1000

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Rural Sociology 1000

• Class Business
• Read Postville-Required!
• We will discuss the book between Nov 26 and 30th.

• Assimilation/
• Multiculturalism
• Continued
• -Neighborhoods
• -Marriage
• -Time Line of Racial and ethnic Groups in the
  U.S.

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• Ideologies
• An ideology is a set of beliefs that are not
  challenged or subjected to scrutiny by the people
  who hold them.
• Racism
• People can be classified into categories on the
  basis of physical characteristics.

• Racism
• -A close correspondence exists between physical
  traits and charcteristics such as language,
  dress, personality, intelligence, and athletic
  ability
• -Physical attributes such as skin color and hair
  texture are so significant that they explain and
  determine behavior and inequalities.

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Prejudice-(Attitude)

• Exaggerated and inaccurate generalizations about
  people who are members of an outgroup. These
  generalizations are applied to everyone who
  shares the distinguishing characteristics of the
  outgroup.

• A rigid and usually unfavorable judgment about an
  outgroup that does not change in the face of
  contradictory evidence and that is applied to
  anyone who shares the distinguishing
  characteristics of that group.

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Discrimination (Behavior)

• Intentional or unintentional unequal treatment of
  individuals or groups on the basis of attributes
  unrelated to merit, ability, or past performance
  with the aim of denying equal opportunities to
  achieve socially valued goals.

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Mertons Typology of Ethnic Prejudice and
Discrimination
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Postville

• Why did Hasidics move to Postville?
• Where did they come from?
• 3. What perspective does the video take on
  diversity? Assimilation? Multiculturalism?
• 4. What are the concerns voiced by locals?
• 5. What are concerns of newcomers?

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• 6. What does Bloom say the experience of
  Postville is really about?
• 7. When did the first sign of change arrive in
  Postville?
• 8. What are some of the evidences of change?