SOC 225 Session 2 Notes.docx - Session 2: Cultural...

Session 2: Cultural Diversity in the United States
Assigned Reading:
Chapter 1
{pages 1 - 13}
Name: Nakkatara Barnes
Class: SOC 225- OL60
Date: 02/08/2022
Essential Question:
How have cultural and ethinic changes in the United States affected the social
diversity of the country?
Questions/Main Ideas: Notes:
Diversity A state of unlikeliness or all the ways in which people are different
Culture Way of life: anything that includes learned, shared from generation to
generation which could be language, value, beliefs.
Cultural Landscape The different lifestyles perspectives and traditions
Millennials Born 1980-2000, seems to be shaped from generational trauma, better known
as gen y,
Minorities Categories of people who have been singled out and denied equal power
(or equality),
Power rather than numbers
Globalization Growing independence of people and cultures
[impacts all people]
Global Perspective View of the world, developing understanding of the world around us
Where do we stand in the world?