I just had surgery and I need help with this please. Read the box in Chapter 4 o
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I just had surgery and I need help with this please.
Read the box in Chapter 4 of your text titled “Black Men and Public Space” and then answer the following questions. Here is the story link https://learning.hccs.edu/faculty/nichelle.puder/assigned-readings/black-men-and-public-space
How did the author’s sex and race impact his socialization process?
How has your sex impacted your socialization?
How has your race/ethnicity impacted your socialization?
How has your social class impacted your socialization?
How has your religious background (or lack of religion) impacted your socialization?
Have any of these factors combined to influence your socialization process (e.g., the socialization experience of a Latino, working-class male is likely quite different from the socialization experience of a Latino upper-middle-class male)?
Explanation / Answer
How did the author’s sex and race impact his socialization process?
As the author is a black man, it happened ten years ago that a white lady walking on the street was running as she was afraid of a looting or raping from that may be orchestrated by him. Thus it affects his socialization process.
How has your sex impacted your socialization?
If your are black and a male with 6 feet and 2 inches height, it is a threat to a tiny white woman, as explained in the personal story of the author.
How has your race/ethnicity impacted your socialization?
The author says: "The fearsomeness mistakenly attributed to me in public places often has a perilous flavor.
The most frightening of these confusions occurred in the late 1970’s and early 1980’s, when
I worked as a journalist in Chicago. One day, rushing into the office of a magazine I was
writing for with a deadline story in hand, I was mistaken as a burglar. The office manager
called security and, with an ad hoc posse, pursued me through the labyrinthine halls, nearly
to my editor’s door. I had no way of proving who I was. I could only move briskly toward
the company of someone who knew me..."
From his narrative, we could understand how your race/ethnicity impacts your socialization.
How has your social class impacted your socialization?
The author says: "Relatively speaking, however, I never fared as badly as another black male journalist. He
went to nearby Waukegan, Illinois, a couple of summers ago to work on a story about a
murderer who was born there. Mistaking the reporter for the killer, police officers hauled
him from his car at gunpointe and but for his press credentials, would probably have tried to
book him. Such episodes are not uncommon. Black men trade tales like this all the time..."
From the above narrative, we can easily understand how has your social class impacted your socialization.
How has your religious background (or lack of religion) impacted your socialization?
The author says: "And, on late-evening constitutionals I employ what has proved to be an excellent tensionreducing measure: I whistle melodies from Beethoven and Vivaldi and the more popular
classical composers. Even steely New Yorkers hunching toward nighttime destinations seem
to relax, and occasionally they even join in the tune. Virtually everybody seems to sense that
a mugger wouldn’t be warbling bright, sunny selections from Vivaldi’s Four Seasons."
From the above narrative, we come to know that our religious background (or lack of religion) impacts our socialization
Have any of these factors combined to influence your socialization process (e.g., the socialization experience of a Latino, working-class male is likely quite different from the socialization experience of a Latino upper-middle-class male)?
Sure, all these factors affect our socialization process in a combined way.