Making Sense of Society: Race, Ethnicity, and Family Through Sociology

This essay delves into the sociological understanding of race, ethnicity, and family, examining how these concepts shape individual experiences and societal structures. The essay begins with an introduction defining race and ethnicity and highlighting their significance. The main body presents a case study of Mr. Matthew, exploring his family history and personal experiences with racial discrimination and societal perceptions in the UK. It discusses the sociological imagination, the impact of race and ethnicity on family life, and the challenges faced by individuals due to their race. The essay references academic literature to support its arguments and concludes by emphasizing the importance of understanding and addressing racial and ethnic differences for a more equitable society. The essay highlights the interplay between structure and agency in shaping individual lives and emphasizes the need for sociological awareness to challenge societal biases and promote inclusivity. It discusses various classifications of ethnicities and the complexities surrounding these categorizations, particularly in the UK context. The essay also covers the sociological perspective on the challenges of race and family and the need for a better society.

Making sense of society: the
socialogical Imagination

Table of Contents
INTRODUCTION...........................................................................................................................3
MAIN BODY...................................................................................................................................3
CONCLUSION................................................................................................................................6
REFERENCES................................................................................................................................7

INTRODUCTION
Race and ethnicity refer to the term which divides the human species into several groups.
These groups are based on different categories like facial features, type of hair, skin, color, and
many more. These are the ones on which different images of society depend which creates
differentiation between human beings. This report aims to understand the experience and
significance of race or ethnicity along with family. In this report, there is a discussion about the
academic literature related to the theme. There is also an example from personal life which can
relate to a discussion regarding race or ethnicity of family. There is also a discussion on how
structure and agency can influence shall in personal life (Ratna, 2018).
MAIN BODY
Identification of theme emerging from family history
Mr. Matthew has a family history which is a significant experience of the theme that is race
and family. Races and relative to the physical difference between a skin color which is generally
can be seen in the UK. This is the one that identifies two different groups of people who served
their life with a different race is black and white. Mr. Mathew belongs to a poor and village
family which creates different ethnicity in society. Our society is the one who is there to create
the sociological imagination about people that they have no standard of living and better
expectation of life.
Ethnicity refers to a social group of person who belongs to our society. It identifies with
as a result of a mix of cultures along with different language, religion, physical, features, diet
which is associated with race. This is the one in which society people making a difference
between human beings. Generally, there is a difference between white and black. This is one of
the biggest problems concerning ethnicity is there in the UK. The UK is fighting for many years
and they are getting a little bit of success but not much. There are different classification of
ethnicities like white, black, mixed, Asian, Chinese, and others. These are the category which is
formed based on national statics. Ethnicity statics, there are several academic which has pointed
about the ethnicity classification and relation to official statistics in the UK since 1991. This is
the one that involves confusion between ethnicity and race (Saha, 2017).
There is different imagination in society about the sociological difference in the concept
of race and ethnicity. This is the idea of the majority and a different group to provide social

structure, satisfaction, power and inequality. It is generally referred to as physical differences
within groups or cultures that are considered by society. Ethnicity refers to the shared culture like
practices, believes, language and many more. Sociological perspective refers to provide the
experience or identification of constructed society to provide social position and different
policies debate regarding immigration, identification, intergroup relation etc. In relation to race,
there are different psychological imaginations which creates differentiation in between society.
This is regarding the other skin color generally is white black mixed on Asian (Brown, 2018).
Different situation faced due to race/ethnicity and family
Different issues and problems create between theme which they don't like each other but
in society and then it to live with following the laws and regulation which makes a better society
to live. There are different people like specific races to develop and other races to stay out from
their places. To this, Mr. Matthew has face different experience related with race is the person
with black skin color and have several times faced. This race issue in regarding their normal and
social life which is the one who experiences a high level of difficulty in searching for a job
opportunity in young is when he was searching for a job opportunity there only a few people or
employer that would like to accept him as their employee. Several employers don't like to accept
him as an employee due to his skin color or race.
This was not the first experience of Mr. Matthew but in childhood, he has also his
different type of experience related to race. In now today's time, society is getting changed and
many of the white people like to enjoy or serve with different skin color like black, white and are
mixed in a better way. Sociological imagination is getting change but not change yet properly.
So, Mr. Matthew has experience different types of situations when he was searching for a job
opportunity when it searches for event organizing to attend any function to attend any party to
attend any business meeting (Close, 2018). There were different times and which instruments
you have experienced the issue which is related with their race. So, it can be seen that Mr.
Mathew has faced different experiences when he was young and in their adult. According to their
skin color and race, they need to make a better society and ways there is no difference between
white or black makes for Asian because every person is a human being there should not be any
type of differentiation according to race or ethnicity. Mr. Matthew belongs to old culture family
who likes to service in the general village and is the one who came out from his village. Mr.
Matthew belongs to a poor family who is developing themselves to attend better quality of life

and better culture so moved on to town to improve their lifestyle. Mr. Mathew is a black man
according to race and different difficulties are faced by him (Maragh, 2018).
There is also and sociological imagination that poor families are not able to improve
themselves according to class division and standard which rich or normal people like to attend in
their life. Mr. Mathew that there are different types of differentiation with their family who lives
in the society where society generally judges them on their way of living, belongingness and
different cultural differences. Mr. Matthew's family has faced ignorance from the society and not
getting better behavior towards them society has never appreciated them for getting far from
their overlap style to developing and emerging, improving lifestyle which is going to help in
learning standard lifestyle.
Race or ethnicity and family is the chosen theme that is going to be described in a better
way in academic literature. It is going to be discussed in a better way both of the themes are
generally can easily be seen in society which creates different perceptions and imaginations of
society to provide not better and differences with them. This is the one that needs to be explained
and to be aware of these images of society. So, there is no need to make some sense about the
society that race and family both need to improve in such a manner that they should provide
better lifestyle and respect in society.
Race and family
Racism and cultural family is the one which is generally faced by a person who comes
from this family that is related with who is having a standard of life and culture which is
different from the social culture. To this, there is a need to provide a better society to provide not
to create any difference between different races and family who are you have not learned about
the standard of life how to live. This is the theme that is race and family which have some special
and specific role in society. These are the one who creates the society people get evolve and form
a higher standard of life and then about to judge other people who are have not yet accepted the
highest standard of living in their life. There is a different perception of society's imagination,
socialization. There is a need for each and everyone to have the same culture, same family status
and different similarities belong to everyone (Monson, 2017).
Mr. Matthew belongs to the black race and from a poor family and this is the reason why
he has experienced differences between race and family due to his old culture, low level of
standard of living, different work experience leads to change and family reputation which society

doesn't like to accept easily. There is the imagination of society that there is only one type of
people with the same resources. Due to different laws legislation of government, there is they are
forced to live with every race with equal behavior. To this, Mr. Matthew have different
experience related with race and ethnicity along with family please provide a brief description
about the sociological imagination which makes sense in society (Honig, 2020).
CONCLUSION
From the above discussion, it can be concluded that there is a different type of
sociological imagination and Society that different types of people face differently. There is in
the present time, it can be said that there should not be any race in her family defense but need to
accept that there is a huge difference and there is the use of race and family in society. In this
report, there is a discussion about a person who has experienced a different situation which is
due to his family standard and race or ethnicity of his cultural differences with others and color
of skin with others.

REFERENCES
Books and Journals
Brown, 2018. Race as a durable and shifting idea: How Black millennial preservice teachers
understand race, racism, and teaching. Peabody Journal of Education, 93(1), pp.106-120.
Close, 2018. Knitting activism, knitting gender, knitting race. International Journal of
Communication, 12, p.23.
Honig, 2020. Exploring the intersection of transnational, ethnic, and migration
entrepreneurship. Journal of Ethnic and Migration Studies, 46(10), pp.1974-1990.
Maragh, 2018. Authenticity on “black Twitter”: Reading racial performance and social
networking. Television & New Media, 19(7), pp.591-609.
Monson, 2017. Groups that work: student achievement in group research projects and effects on
individual learning. Teaching sociology, 45(3), pp.240-251.
Ratna, 2018. Not just merely different: Travelling theories, post-feminism and the racialized
politics of women of color. Sociology of Sport Journal, 35(3), pp.197-206.
Saha, 2017. The politics of race in cultural distribution: Addressing inequalities in British Asian
theatre. Cultural Sociology, 11(3), pp.302-317.