SOCIOL 1A06 Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: Sexual Objectification, Occupational Inequality, Deindustrialization
6 Jun 2016
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133 siq: ethnic groups are distinguished by ancestry, culture, and social location . Races differ from ethnic groups and from one another in terms of visible physical characteristics such as skin color. Statuses acquired by social definition, can change over time. Objective: definitions: ethnicity as fixed and static (language, culture, customs, country of origin, ancestry) Subjective approaches: ethnic identity as variable and flexible (self-defined by people: example: experience of visible minority university students described (henry and tator, example: quebec civil nationalism versus ethnic nationalists. Many people believe in the existence of ethnicity and race and organize their relationships with others on the basis of those beliefs. Therefore, race and ethnicity are important parts of our social reality. Institutional practices that were originally racist but no longer are: 3. Institutions that unintentionally restrict the chances of certain groups (i. e. , racial profiling) Denying the right to vote form certain groups. 12 siq the racial profiling debate in toronto: data, denials and.
