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The discussion activity provides you with an opportunity to apply working concepts and definitions such as power, inequality, structural inequality, subordination, and segregation. You will discuss the differential social experiences, and differential access to resources and opportunities by virtue of racial/ethnic (social class and sex/gender) in daily life. The activity can also help you differentiate between prejudice and discrimination due to a person’s social statuses, as well as their impacts.

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Directions

The initial post and the comments have different due dates. Please pay attention to the different due dates.

Part 1: Initial Response

For this module, we will discuss causes and consequences of structural and systemic inequality by race/ethnicity and social class. Watch the following videos, reflect, and write about the causes/sources and consequences of structural and systemic (in)equalities as you’ve experienced them. The fact that we all live in the same society, and governed by the same Constitution does not mean that we experience the social institutions and processes in the same manner.

“A Tale of Two Schools” [Length 3:47]hsarhan1. (2009, February 20). “A tale of two schools”. [Video file]. (Links to an external site.)

Black Parents Explain How to Deal With The Police [Length 5:30] Cut. (2017, February 6). Black parents explain how to deal with the police. [Video file]. (Links to an external site.)

Cracking The Codes: Power Analysis [Length 7:10] WorldTrustTV. (2012, October 5). Cracking the codes: Power analysis. [Video file]. (Links to an external site.)

Part 2: Comments

In responding to a post, consider some of the ways in which your experience(s) are similar or dissimilar by virtue of your zip code and/or race/ethnicity and/or social class and/or sex/gender. In what specific ways do you see social institutions and processes both enabling or constraining due one’s social status? What can you infer looking at things from the standpoint of your fellow student(s)?