SOC100H1 Chapter Notes - Chapter 6: Visible Minority, Concubinage, Racialization

• School: UTSG
• Department: Sociology
• Course: SOC100H1

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Ethnicity cultural characteristics such as language, religion, taste in food, shared descent, cultural traditions, shared geographic locations. Objective ethnicity ethnic characteristics of your ancestors. Subjective ethnicity how you personally identify your ethnicity. Race socially constructed category used to classify humankind according to such physical characteristics as skin colour, hair texture, and facial features. Racialization process by which racial categories are constructed as different & unequal in ways that have social, economic, political consequences. Visible minorities persons, other than aboriginal persons, who are non-caucasian in race or non-white in colour. Family-class immigrants immigrants who are sponsored by close relatives living in. Economic immigrants immigrants selected on basis of some combination of educational attainment, occupational skills, entrepreneurship, business investment, and ability to contribute to the canadian economy. Refugees persons who are forced to flee from persecution. Bicultural participating in 2 distinct cultures simultaneously. Integration pattern identifying with both one"s heritage culture & one"s new, national.