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1 Reaction Paper #3 Alonzo Chavez Allan Hancock College SOC 101: Introduction to Sociology Professor Daniel McNeil October 31, 2023

2 Reaction Paper #3 Part 1: The most sociologically relevant part of the video, if I can only choose one, is the disparity in percentage of four-year degrees amongst certain races. According to CrashCourse (2017), only 22% of Arican Americans and 16% of Hispanic Americans have a four-year degree, compared to 36% of non-Hispanic White Americans and 53% of Asian Americans. This is sociologically relevant because of the direct correlation between higher education and income. According to Conerly et al. (2021, p. 239) income can be described as a person’s wages or investment dividends. Individuals with a four-year degree are more likely to have a job that pays better, and from what we learned in the video, African Americans and Hispanic Americans are the populations with the least amount of four-year degrees. It should come as no surprise that African Americans and Hispanic Americans have the least amount of wealth in America. According to CrashCourse (2017), wealth is the total value of the money and other assets you hold, like real estate and stocks and bonds. Also, part of wealth is debt, so if you have more debt than positive assets, your wealth is negative. The video enhanced my understanding of the textbook and article readings by providing visuals and animations as well as explaining key concepts in depth and adding more detail. The textbook did a great job at outlining the basic ideas and concepts while providing some examples, but the video brought it all together. An example would be an artist painting a picture on a canvas. The textbook is the outline of the subject, the article readings are the details that clarify the subject matter, and the video was adding color to the painting and bringing it to life. I’m a visual learner, so having a video component to go along with the textbook and articles made it a lot easier for me to truly understand the course concepts for this chapter.

3 An example used in the film that was particularly powerful, or memorable, was the section on “redlining”. “Redlining is the practice of routinely refusing mortgages for households and businesses located in predominately minority communities, while sedimentation of racial inequality describes the intergenerational impact of both practical and legalized racism that limits the abilities of Black people to accumulate wealth” (Conerly et al. 2021, p. 300). Denied access to loans and investments, communities that were redlined couldn’t benefit from homeownership and property value appreciation, leading to a significant wealth gap between redlined areas and other neighborhoods. I consider myself a patriot, but some things are inexcusable and make you feel disappointed in your country. This is one of those things for me. I have no way of definitively saying that I have experienced the effects of redlining as a Hispanic American, but what I will say is that coming from poverty has an influence on your mindset. I grew up without much, and we were considered to be living in poverty for my entire childhood, but I had it better than my dad. My dad grew up with a single mother who was trying to raise nine kids on her own. Yes, nine. His mom worked in the fields, so she did not make much money, and they had to do without often. “Americans like their goods cheap and their services plentiful and the two of them, together, require a sprawling labor force willing to work tough jobs at crummy wages.” (Klein, 2021). “Tough jobs for crummy wages” sums it up well. As you might imagine, no one on his side of the family has a four-year degree, and very few of them own property. I grew up thinking that it would be extremely difficult to own a home, but that did not stop me from achieving that goal I had. While I admit that it is easier to fall into the same lifestyle that you came from (poverty), it is not impossible to break the cycle. I will use myself and my siblings as an example. My older brother is 35 and has never had a real job in his life. He has been to jail at least 3 times and was hooked on hard drugs for about 10 years of his

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4 life. He is now sober but has not done anything else to better himself aside from getting clean about 8 years ago. My first sister is 2 years younger than me at 26, and has worked at McDonald’s since she was 16, and just recently got a new job that paid better. My youngest sister is 21 and had been working at Taco Bell for about 3-4 years, and just recently got hired on at the casino as a cashier. None of them have taken more than a class or two at the local community college. My older brother and the sister closest to me in age both live at home, and my youngest sister lives with her boyfriend at his parents house. I am 29 and have been a homeowner for about 3 years now, I don’t have a four-year degree yet, but I graduate next spring debt-free because of the benefits I received from serving in the Army. We all grew up with the same parents, in very similar economical situations, but the key difference in my opinion is self- determination and intrinsic motivation. I love my siblings and am not intending to speak down on them, I am just stating the fact that none of them have nearly as much self-determination and intrinsic motivation to succeed as I do. I refused to let myself live paycheck to paycheck, working terrible jobs and paying someone else’s mortgage. We had the same odds, I chose a different path than they did and the results speak for themselves. Part 2: A question that came to mind while watching the video is “how can we do a better job at reaching children in poor communities? Specifically, how can we inform more people in these communities about financial aid, scholarships, trade schools, etc.?”. Another question that came to mind when watching the video is, how is that Asian Americans are receiving four-year degrees at the highest rate of any particular race in America even though they are minorities?

5 Most of what we learned about in this video is how minorities have it harder, but what about Asian Americans? What’s different there? Is there real data that can help explain?”.

6 References Conerly, T. R., Holmes, K., & Tamang, A. L. (2021). 3.1 What is Culture? In Introduction to Sociology 3e. OpenStax. CrashCourse. 2017, August 21. Social Stratification in the US: Crash Course Sociology #23 . YouTube. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DeiHz5tzlws Klein, E. (2021, June 14). What the rich don’t want to admit about the poor. Opinion. https://www.nytimes.com/2021/06/13/opinion/stimulus-unemployment-republicans poverty.html?action=click&module=Opinion&pgtype=Homepage

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