Week 10 · Readings & resources

Week 10 — Readings & Resources

Introduction to Sociology Free sample edition

Your primary reading is Chapter 10 (in this module). Everything below is the optional, go-deeper layer — pick what helps, skip the rest.

How to use this page

This page has 11 items (5 readings and 6 videos). Allow 82–99 minutes for everything. Each group points back to the matching chapter section and class-session segment, so use the full menu when you want more practice, or take the quick path below.

Every video here has captions: turn them on with the CC button in the player. The chapter covers the same ideas in text.

Pick-one quick path (19–23 min total)

① What is race, and how is it different from ethnicity?

Chapter 10, Section “Race: see a category people built” · Session 1, Segment 1, “Race, ethnicity, and minority groups” · Remember: race is a category a society built and keeps redrawing, while ethnicity is a heritage people share.

Race & Ethnicity: Crash Course Sociology #34 — CrashCourse — an overview of how the definitions of race and ethnicity have shifted across time and places, and what the word minority means in sociology. Use it while working through the Week-10 module overview; stop here before sex and gender, which next week takes up. (video, 11 min) (captions: creator)
The myth of race, debunked in 3 minutes — Vox — a short explainer that asks how you would prove your race if someone disagreed with you, a quick way into the idea that the categories are built. (video, 3 min) (captions: creator)
Race — National Human Genome Research Institute — a federal genetics glossary entry that describes race as a social construct rather than a biological category; a one-minute read worth setting beside the chapter's definition. (reading, 2–4 min)

② Is it an attitude, an action, or a procedure?

Chapter 10, Section “Prejudice and discrimination: tell an attitude from an action” · Session 1, Segment 2, “Prejudice, discrimination, and institutional racism” · Remember: prejudice is an attitude, discrimination is an action, and a rule can carry bias that no single person intends.

Racial/Ethnic Prejudice & Discrimination: Crash Course Sociology #35 — CrashCourse — defines prejudice, stereotypes, discrimination, and institutional racism, then previews the patterns of intergroup relations; any figures it cites come from an earlier year, so use the chapter's 2020 figures for this course. (video, 12 min) (captions: creator)
Race/Color Discrimination — U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission — the federal agency's plain-language page on discrimination at work; read the part on employment policies and practices, where a rule applied to everyone can still disadvantage one group, and compare it with the chapter's warehouse referral rule. (reading, 4–6 min)

③ How do groups meet, and what did Du Bois see?

Chapter 10, Section “Intergroup relations: map how groups meet” · Session 2, Segment 3, “Du Bois and the patterns of intergroup relations” · Remember: groups can meet as equals, blend, be kept apart, or be targeted for destruction, and contact can reduce prejudice under some conditions, which researchers test.

Assimilation: What are Patterns of Intergroup Relations? — Sociology Vibes — a short lecture on assimilation as one pattern of intergroup relations, with examples to compare against pluralism and segregation in the chapter. (video, 6 min) (captions: creator)
Linda Tropp - Intergroup Contact — The Brainwaves Video Anthology — a researcher on intergroup contact explains what contact between groups can and cannot do, a useful check on the chapter's point that the contact hypothesis is a hypothesis to test. (video, 4 min) (captions: automatic)
The Souls of Black Folk by W. E. B. Du Bois — Project Gutenberg — the free full text of Du Bois's 1903 book, where the color line and double consciousness first appear; choose the read-online version and begin at the start to meet his own voice beside this week's summary of his ideas. (reading, 15–20 min)

④ How do you read the census race question?

Chapter 10, Section “The 2020 Census: read the race and ethnicity shares” · Session 2, Segment 4, “Three lenses and the 2020 Census shares” · Remember: race and Hispanic origin are two separate questions, so their shares never stack into one pie.

Census Race Questions 101, With Explainer on Proposed Overhaul — Boston Indicators — a short briefing on how the race and Hispanic-origin questions work and on a later proposal to change them; for this course, read the 2020 figures with the two separate questions the chapter uses. (video, 9 min) (captions: automatic)
Improvements to the 2020 Census Race and Hispanic Origin Question Designs, Data Processing, and Coding Procedures — U.S. Census Bureau — the Census Bureau explains what it changed in how the 2020 questions were asked, captured, and coded; read it to see how one written-in answer can now be coded into more than one category, one reason the chapter treats part of the rise in Two or More Races as a change in the question. This builds on Week 2's work on reading a statistic for what it measures and over whom. (reading, 8–12 min)

Optional one-stop reference (free online reference)

2020 Census Illuminates Racial and Ethnic Composition of the Country — U.S. Census Bureau — the release behind this week's 2020 race and Hispanic-origin shares; read the summary figures and the notes on question design, and skip the state maps unless you want them. (reading, 8–12 min)

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