Race, Sexuality, Gender, And Ethnicity

In the assignment, I will give an imaginary case study of a counselling client with issues relating to fear and sadness and contemplate how their problems discover in their life. The case study will clearly focus on sociocultural issues, such as race, culture, gender and sexuality. It will look at how convenient it can be to accept how important sociocultural issues can be when considering individual suffering. The main focus this assignment will be weight up with regards to sociocultural issues will be, culture, race and sexuality. The counselling approach being used will be person centred therapy. The case study is based on 27 year old woman who is black and gay. She has anxiety around men which is the outcome of an intimidating, abusive grandfather who raised her.

Walker, S., Spohn, C., Delone, Miriam. (2004). The Color of Justice: Race, Ethnicity, and Crime in America (3rded.). Toronto, Ontario: Thomas Learning Inc.

Have you ever been guilty of listening to a voice of a random caller on the radio who is eager to win tickets to the next Bruno Mars concert or a hopeful caller requesting for a song to play next, and automatically assumed that you knew what race he or she was? Maybe you have had the television on low in the background as you complete a last minute paper. Your eyes are not on the television, but you hear a voice and you are certain that the speaker is a White female or a gay male. This phenomenon is called Linguistic Profiling. Linguistic Profiling is the act of identifying one’s social characteristic based on his or her dialect or accent (Alim, 2005). It may be too easy for one to drawl a conclusion about the sexuality and race of someone based solely on the way he or she sounds.

For many years’ crime in America has been an ongoing problem with statistics dramatically varying over the past decade (Walker, Spohn & DeLone 2012). American crime statistics show crime is commonly associated with racial aggregation, crimes include: drugs, burglary, larceny, arson and motor vehicle theft, to more violent crimes, such as, rape, robbery, assault and homicide, in which the rate is exceptionally high (Walker, Spohn & DeLone 2012). Further, racial conflict has been an issue in American history for over a century and continues to be an arguable topic (Beckett & Sasson 2014). According to Walker, Spohn and DeLone (2012) it is argued that the American criminal justice system declares they are not racist and that allegations of

Socialization is the unequal distribution of power, wealth, income and social status between individuals and groups. This distribution is not random, it is patterned and structured. Three important axes of global inequality are gender, race and ethnicity, and class. These inequalities are on a global scale and are found in virtually all societies. It wasn't until relatively recently, however, that a caste system developed to include race and ethnicity among class and gender. Since imperialism and the conquest of the America's, a number of social changes have occurred, and, as a result, the dominant groups today are not only higher in the social order, in terms of rank, but they are considered better as well.

affected individuals and families in many ways throughout history and in present day. Social influences

Sometimes people find themselves trapped between the lesser of two evils, struggle with which to identify with. These “choices” though not really choices at all, are given to people everyday and we are forced to suffer or benefit from the consequences of each choice. Now, these are choices that we, ourselves didn’t even pick ourselves, but rather the accident of birth and genetics chose for us before we were even ourselves. The choices I speak about here are the ways in which people deal with intersecting realms of class, race, and gender. Some say that we lose a part of ourselves when we attempt to change how people perceive our class or race, but can we truly change who we are? And do we lose a part of ourselves by trying to be something else?

As society progresses and history is created, many factors such as race, ethnicity, and culture tend to shape the ideas among different people. One major group of people that were severely impacted was the African Americans in the United States during the periods from 1804-1813, 1819-1831, and 1832-1848. Based on the definitions from the Asian Pacific Americans: “Keywords,” Concepts and History, it is said that race is impossible to be defined race from the biological view, because people have been evolved so much over the years, the gene pool is so mixed that distinguishing people from the biological view is not so accurate. For example, African Americans and native Africans both originated from Africa with similar biological and physical aspects, but they may have different lifestyles and preferences. As the African Americans continue to adapt to the life in the United States, and to have their kids be the first generation American citizens, the society has already shaped this new group of people to live a complete different life than their native relatives. As the new population of African Americans in a certain region began to share similar lifestyles such as language, culture, and religion, and etc., they began to form similarities among themselves that isolates them away from others with different lifestyles. As people move to a new

According to the first article, Paul determined that when one feels comfortable with a lab partner they get judged by that person. Which in the outcome, affects how well they do on the task they are trying to perform (Paul 4-6). Paul also states that social factors have a big influence on the way people learn. When a person is in a class that is filled with a bunch of their friends, they are more likely to do bad in that class. One reason being that they are comfortable around those people (Paul 7-11). He also states that race and gender affect people's ability to do well in school (Paul 15-18).

Art has an interesting way of reinforcing itself through popular culture in western society. A culture that has a population mixed with many different racial identities, yet cultivates its pop culture through a ‘black and ‘white’ preface. The U.S is known to categorize diverse races into one; highlighting the inferiority other races face while living within our culture. Women have been idealized and compounded into western society as sex symbols and housewives. Women from other races non-white or Black are not only seen the same way, but are also included in the melting pot of diluted racial identities formatted from “whitening” groups. Racial identity hardly sways the expectations in Women that society sees as normal; rather it highlights the racial discrimination we reinforce in western culture that derives from improper stereotyping and labeling.

Fast disclaimer, this isn’t about racial/cultural/gender identity and social change. I felt more passionate about this topic and felt compelled to write about it.

Franklin (1987) also alluded that patriarchy did not serve black men; the notion of black men being domineering over groups is questionable. Besides, Pleck (2008) claimed that the male heterosexual-homosexual dichotomy is used as the main symbolic tool defining the rankings of masculinity. Highlighting racial politics, it would be interesting to have a study focusing on the power relations between white gay men and black heterosexual men. This is premised on the stance that the racial hierarchy, regardless of its dismissal, seems to continue to characterise socio-economic relations. ???? stated that race remains a factor because it is deeply embedded within the subconscious, a discussion on this shall follow suit.

What is race? Race is defined as a group of persons related by common descent or heredity (Dictionary). Many notice this as color of skin or where you were born. The differences in race, class, gender is what make the position of an individual in society. In our textbook race is defined as “a category of people who have been singled out as inferior or superior, often based on real or alleged physical characteristics such as skin color, hair texture, eye shape, or other subjectively selected attributes” (Kendall, 2013, p 296). A variety of people believe that race and ethnicity are the same when they are not. Race, class, and gender all plays into someone social stratification. I interviewed two individuals from different race and ethnicity and different class and gender. These individuals both came from a different walk of life.

Popular understanding reflects the view that sex refers to ones biological functions in comparison to gender, which is solely explained as a cultural impact in depicting ones identity. The conveying of these two concepts create implications in demonstrating the understanding of ones sex or gender as distinct elements, of personal characteristics and human traits. Sex and gender are two contrasting features constantly interrelating, in day-to-day lives. A concise narrowing will be drawn from this understanding throughout the essay, denoting the numerous aspects arising as implications of the current understanding of sex and gender. Conclusions that stem from the popular understandings of sex and gender will be discussed within essay, highlighting implications of gender roles, intersex individuals and biological elements creating distinction between males and females.

Humans have always found characteristics with which they distinguish themselves from one another. This division breeds discrimination between the groups, with the voice of the majority outweighing the voice of the minority. Today the characteristics that define the groups most prevalently affected by discrimination are race, religion, age, sexual orientation and gender. However, even the minutest physical characteristics, like hair color, can give reason for this baseless prejudice. In Japan, early records show evidence of an “untouchable” social class that occupied undesirable jobs like butchery and tending to the dead. Since the Japanese Edo Period from 1600 to 1867, there has existed a strict social hierarchy. Occupying the lowest rung of this hierarchy are burakumin, which translates to “village people”. The offensiveness of this designation is not apparent until it is known that the translation for the class descendant of samurai (the “purest” Japanese) is “ordinary people”. Burakumin were perceived as lesser people by this upper class, called futsūmin. Meanwhile, Koreans in Japan did not have an easier experience. They faced unjust immigration laws when attempting to enter and stay in Japan, and racism from Japanese citizens once they had arrived (Rabson 220-223).