SOC 1010 Lecture Notes - Lecture 8: Institutional Racism
12 Jul 2016
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Race as a social construct : race-a symbolic category, based on phenotype or ancestry and constructed according to specific social historical contexts, that is recognized as a natural category. Symbolic category -shift overtime; the meaning of black has shifted overtime it is usually characterized around phenotype or ancestry. Phenotype-physical appearance height, hair, texture, etc ancestry-tribal, regional, or national affiliations. Race as social and historical contexts: place-specific-bound to certain geographic and social contexts (ex. Jen was asian in idaho, but white in california: time-specific-changing between different historical eras. Five fallacies about racism: individualistic fallacy-the idea that there are racists, and non racists; individual level problem. Schools, work force, labor markets: legalistic fallacy-line of thinking that if we get rid of racist laws, then we get rid of racism all together.
