Invisible Privilege

I see privilege as being invisible because the more possessions people have in their life allows them to become more comfortable with their surroundings, this makes it harder for these people to realize what opportunities are available to them. Andrea in this case has always grown up in this Montclair House with extra amenities throughout that house that people could only wish to have, and the accessibility to sought after schools. Just like Andrea, people who are raised in means that they can not see privilege. Categories that are more likely aware of privilege I believe are those in the lower class brackets than that of those in the higher classes of living.
Andrea was so uncomfortable in Jewel’s Newark House because of how the other kids spoke to each other, which she was not used to, the lack of lighting the house, the second bathroom in the basement having inadequate to no lighting really frightened her when she need to use it. And lastly because she and her Mother were the only two white people there. I do believe that some people can overcome the social differences that are described with these two families. Many people will stick to their old ways of thinking and not change from these ideas. For example middle aged white businessmen with a fixed ideology of how it’s socially acceptable means of living be able to casually co-habitate with men and women of less means.
Some of the elements of privilege that I can identify personally is the ability to be living away from my family, being a full time student, working so few hours at a job and some of the high cost cycling bikes I own.  I feel that these privileges do not affect my relationships with others because the town community I live in is known to be Middle -upper class living and many of the items I own are just an entry point to others, and everyone likes to be apart of one another’s lives.

Women and the Birth of Sociology

Having read Patricia Madoo Lengermann, and Jill Niebrugge-Brantley’s “Women and the Birth Of Sociology,” I really don’t understand why women were written out of the history of sociology. I suppose such a thing could have happened at the time when women wanted to move out of the home and get jobs in order to discourage such ventures, trying to show that women haven’t done much, or hide the fact that they have. The women talked about in the essay wrote about important things, mostly based in feminist ideals. The things most of the women had in common were, again, writing during the various feminist movements throughout the world and mostly writing about female-centric topics like motherhood and and how most professions at the time were occupied by men. It is important today to talk about the woman founders in Sociology because they made huge contributions. Harriet Martineau alone not only translated Comte, but also wrote plenty of her own findings. Women made a big impact in the early days of sociology not only in the field of feminism, but everywhere else.

BY KATHRYN