Sociology Race, Ethnicity, and Gender as Social Constructs

Sociology Race, Ethnicity, and Gender as Social Constructs

Instructions/Descriptions

Sociology Race, Ethnicity, and Gender as Social Constructs

Required Resources

Read/review the following resources for this activity:

Textbook: Chapter 9

Lesson

Link (website): Pew Research Center website article (Links to an external site.)

Click on the Social Trends tab.

Click on the Interactives tab.

Locate the following link: How Census Race Categories Have Changed Over Time

Click on “1790” to see two columns comparing the 1790 Census categories with the 2020 Census categories.

Use the references on this page and any resources shared by your instructor

Instructions
In this week’s lesson, you learned about the U.S. Census Bureau’s most recent racial and ethnic categories.  For this assignment, consider the racial and ethnic categories used in the 2020 Census with the four racial, ethnic, and gender categories used in the 1790 Census: Free white males, free white females, all other  free persons, slaves (Pew Research Center, 2015). Analyze the concepts of race, ethnicity, and gender as social constructs, just as  sociologists do, by addressing the following:

Explain how you might have been categorized by the 1790 Census and how you would have been categorized by the 2020 Census.

Compare and contrast the two potential categorizations and explain  how this exercise shows that the concepts of race, ethnicity, and even  gender change over time. Most importantly, explain how this exercise  shows that the concepts of race, ethnicity, and gender are social  constructs.

Determine and describe what ethnic, racial, and/or gender  categories, if any, would be best, in your view, for the 2030 Census, to  most accurately show the diversity of the U.S. population and to  promote social justice. What categories would be best to reveal the  segments of the U. S. population most vulnerable to racial, ethnic,  and/or gender inequalities or discrimination? What categories could be  listed in the 2030 Census that might best educate the U. S. population  on differences between race and ethnicity, and promote social justice?  Explain your decisions

Include headings for each of the three main sections of the paper:

What the Census Might Have Called Me

Social Constructs

Better Future Census Categories

Each of the three main sections of your paper must contain scholarly  support in the form of quotes or paraphrases with respective citations  from assigned reading (the textbook/lesson) and the outside scholarly source that you identify on your own.

*This assignment is adapted from Glaser (2018).

Pew Research Center. (2015, June 10). What Census calls us: A historical timeline. Retrieved from  http://www.pewsocialtrends.org/interactives/multir…

Glaser, L.B. (2018, May 10). Sociology department launches Active Learning Initiative project. Cornell Chronicle. Retrieved from http://news.cornell.edu/stories/2018/05/sociology-…

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