This document contains two questions from Abena Darko's final exam in Introduction to Sociology. Question 1 discusses how privilege allows certain behaviors and opportunities based on group membership like race, gender, class or sexuality. It analyzes a video example where a woman was able to point out racial discrimination against her sister-in-law using her white privilege. Question 2 discusses an article by Ta-Nehisi Coates about the stigma between police and society. It argues that police are tasked with dealing with social issues instead of just protecting people, and this has led African Americans to view the police as a lethal force rather than as protectors.
This document contains two questions from Abena Darko's final exam in Introduction to Sociology. Question 1 discusses how privilege allows certain behaviors and opportunities based on group membership like race, gender, class or sexuality. It analyzes a video example where a woman was able to point out racial discrimination against her sister-in-law using her white privilege. Question 2 discusses an article by Ta-Nehisi Coates about the stigma between police and society. It argues that police are tasked with dealing with social issues instead of just protecting people, and this has led African Americans to view the police as a lethal force rather than as protectors.
This document contains two questions from Abena Darko's final exam in Introduction to Sociology. Question 1 discusses how privilege allows certain behaviors and opportunities based on group membership like race, gender, class or sexuality. It analyzes a video example where a woman was able to point out racial discrimination against her sister-in-law using her white privilege. Question 2 discusses an article by Ta-Nehisi Coates about the stigma between police and society. It argues that police are tasked with dealing with social issues instead of just protecting people, and this has led African Americans to view the police as a lethal force rather than as protectors.
QA - A consequence associated with privilege is certain behaviors being recognized as innate
based on an individuals color. Privilege is defined as the right for an individual to have access to opportunities due to a particular group membership. When examining privilege through a sociologically point of view it often has to do with either race, gender, class or sexuality. The video demonstrates privilege in the sense that Kaitlyn was able to use her race to make right of a situation that was deemed wrong. The sister in law was able to avoid of all the changes that the her sister had to go through because of her skin color, even though they both identified as the same ethnicity. Kaitlyn was aware that she walked through the world differently than her sister in law did. Her walking through this world differently allowed her to use her privilege, also known as her skin tone, to make right of the discrimination against her sister in law. She was aware of the unequal treatment by the worker, and because of that she pointed it out. Kaitlyn let the worker know that she knew this was racial discrimination because she noticed the worker only bothered to ask her sister in law for two forms of I.D. This then educated and also made everyone else in the same environment aware of what was going on. However, if it had been the other way around where Kaitlyn's sister in law stated that she felt racially discriminated, the situation would of been viewed differently because they would of categorized it as just an angry black woman.
Question 2
QA - Ta-Nehisi uses an institutionalized lens and a sociological imagination in order to
understand the stigma between police and society. Their job is to protect people, but instead the police are faced with dealing with societys social issues. Instead of allowing the police to do what they are trained to do we put them in situations that people of a different profession should be dealing with. This raises the question of should certain issues involve the police? One of the issues he mentions is police brutality. Society prefers to consider the actions of these so-called bad individuals instead of focusing on the intentions and the functions of the system. In other words we make the criminal justice system deal with societys issues instead of the men and woman who specialize in dealing with those problems. African Americans have lived under this criminal justice system for majority of their lives which makes police power a necessity. This then takes police brutality to a whole different level because American Americans now feel as though in the presence of police their objective is to avoid being killed, instead of them worrying about not making any sudden movements around police, because it is the respectful thing to do. This leads to society creating this stigma about police being viewed as a lethal force. We leave it as the cops responsibility to deal with the societys social issues.