Project 3 Outline
Project 3 Outline
Project 3 Outline
Sociology1
ProfessorOrtega
December20,2015
WhitePrivilegeintheUnitedStates
White privilege is a term that refers to the societal privileges that benefit white
people in theUnited States whencomparedtononwhitepeople inthesamesocialand
economic conditions. The effects of this can be viewed in business, education, and
personal contexts. There is a presumed greater status placed upon white people,and
the reason for this may be due to underlying problems of inequality or due to other
social privileges interconnected with it. Nonetheless, white privilege is an aspect of
Americansocietythathasbeenprevalentbothinthepresentandthepast.
In the year 1935, W. E. B.Du Bois wrote in
BlackReconstructionin Americaof
the concept ofapsychologicalwage, inwhichlowincomewhitepeople felt superior to
lowincomeblack people.Theconceptofwhiteprivilegecameaboutinthe 1960swhen
historians claimed that the white race was a ruling social class since the seventeenth
century and during the time of imperialism. This concept of white privilege was only
magnified during the eras ofslavery and segregationin the United States. It appeared
that for whatever reason, white people somehow ended up on the higher end of the
socialclasswhilenonwhitesendedupeitherinthemiddleornearthebottom.
Theconflict paradigm isclearlyevidentwhenspeakingofwhiteprivilege.Conflict
theory comes from the economist Karl Marx. According to this theory, a society only
equalize this is to give more opportunities of betterment to those that are not upper
class.Allshouldhavethesameopportunitiestosucceedinthisnation.
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