SOC30360 Sociology of Migration Race and Ethnicity Assignment Questions | UCD

Reflection and Theoretical Concepts Guidelines

Respond: 100-200 words in length, reflecting on the prompt above.

Question 1

Keeping in mind the question “Is race real?”, please respond to the following article: Racial purity is scientifically meaningless, say 8,000 geneticists.

• How do the issues raised help you to make sense of the concept of “race”?
• Is there anything you found surprising concerning your previous understandings of “race”?
• Consider the statements “I don’t see race” or “I don’t see colour”. What is your immediate response to these statements? How can we critically analyse these statements based on what we have learned this week?

Question 2

Choose one theoretical concept that you found in the recommended readings to be particularly interesting and explain why.

• Lefebvre’s ‘right to the city’
• de Certeau’s ‘tactics’
• Agamben’s ‘bare life’
• Freud’s concept of ‘disavowal’
• Bourdieu’s notion of capital
• Krumboltz’s ‘happenstance learning theory’