Week 2 Reflection
Angela Smith
SOC/ 315 Mr. Richardson
September 16, 2013
University of Phoenix

Week 2 Reflection
In week two we talked about how to explain the concept of culture is used to construct group identity. How to analyze the social concept of race. And also how to describe how behavioral and thinking patterns apply to diversity issues.
We also went over are African Americans still experiencing racism? Racism can also be seen as a system of advantages based on race. It allows us to see that racism, like other forms of oppression is not a personal ideology of racial prejudice, but also a system involving cultural messages and institutional policies and practices as well as the belief of individuals.
We went over inventing Hispanics and how particularly important for understanding the future of diversity in American Society. To be Asian in America. Asian Americans face the perception that they are all the same.
We also talked about hate crime when offenders are motivated to choose a victim because of some characteristic. We also discussed prejudice which is a negative attitude toward an entire category of people. Discrimination is the denial of opportunities and equal rights to individuals and groups because of prejudice or for other arbitrary reasons. We also went over racial profiling and how any police initiated action based on race ethnicity, or national origin rather than the person’s behavior.
In this reflection are some of the things that we discussed in week two.

References
Chapter 2, Chapter 3, Chapter 5
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