Meritocracy

Choose Two or More of the following ways that “Privilege” is seen in the following institutions: Politics ,Education, and Employment then write an essay.

Racism, Privilege, Microaggressions, Unconscious Bias Choose Two or More of the following themes for Microaggressions: Alien in one’s own land Ascription of intelligence Color Blindness Pathologizing Cultural Values or Communication Styles Second-Class Citizen Criminality or Assumption of Criminal Status Prejudicing and Stereotyping Myth of Meritocracy, Denial of Individual Racism, Sexism, Heterosexism Choose Two or More […]

Write an essay in which you demonstrate your understanding of how sociologists identify and explore social issues. How would Mills’ concept help you identify or clarify your topic as an important social phenomenon?

Discovering the sociological perspective. Context: From the list below choose a topic that interests you and which you would like to know more about. Each topic is intentionally broad and reflects several, more focused, social issues that have been in the news during recent months. For example, issues involving voting rights or housing or poverty […]

Write an essay in which you make an argument about the this story and how it relates to libertarianism, meritocracy or egalitarianism, and the merits/flaws with that system.

In “What Do We Deserve?”, Namit Arora considers the problems that emerge when we confuse economic and social outcomes with merit or worth; in other words, when we assume that economic or social outcomes equate to “moral desert” (59). Such misperceptions are an outcome of stories of social mobility that are central to American culture, […]

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