TY - JOUR AU - Walker, Henry PY - 2010/04/26 Y2 - 2024/03/28 TI - RACE AND ETHNIC RELATIONS JF - TRAILS: Teaching Resources and Innovations Library for Sociology JA - TRAILS VL - IS - SE - DO - UR - https://trails.asanet.org/article/view/race-and-ethnic-relations-walker SP - AB - Sociology 467 focuses on the SOCIOLOGY of minority-majority relations with specificemphasis on race and ethnic inequality. As such, it is not likely to satisfy those motivated byideological or humanitarian concerns or those who think of sociology as another form ofjournalistic history. As an added caution, I reproduce commentary about an earlier version of this course:"It is not the subject matter of a course but its intellectual structure that determines whether ornot it is part of some discipline. ... [a] course called 'Race and Ethnic Relations' is listed inAfrican and Afro-American Studies, but it is still Sociology 145-in concept as well as in name.The heavyweight readings make it clear that this is no rap session. But, in case anyone misses the message, the syllabus states on the first page that this course is about' explaining phenomena in a rigorous, scientific sense,' that mere' empathy' for this or that group is not the point. Anyone familiar with the professor who teaches the course is unlikely to think that this is mere talk. He is teaching a course in his discipline." (T. Sowell, Choosing a College, 1989:74) ER -