In His Ethnomethodological Study of Conversations at a Race Training

question 77

Multiple Choice

In his ethnomethodological study of conversations at a race training workshop, discussed in Chapter 3, Whitehead found that individuals tended to avoid directly mentioning race. Study participants also downplayed the significance of race as an explanation for people's experiences. Whitehead argues that this is important because, at the macro level, conversations that reflect the commonly held assumption that race is no longer important in shaping people's experiences:

• A)increase social integration and equality across groups within society
• B)highlight the effectiveness of race training workshops and other programs that emphasize diversity-related issues
• C)make characteristics other than race, like gender, more salient bases of identity
• D)reproduce existing patterns of racial/ethnic inequality
• E)show that it is possible to move toward a "raceless" society

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