SOC100H1 Chapter Notes - Chapter 8: Imagined Communities, Performativity, Ethnocentrism
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Ethnic group: a group of people commonly defined as belonging to the same group by virtue of birthplace, ancestry, language, or culture. Racial group: a set of people distinguishable by visible physical features. Racialization is the tendency to view and group humans according to their physical appearance. Critical race theory: views race as a performance, not a quality. Essentialism: the view that different social categories may be characterized and differentiated on the basis of qualities, characteristics and dispositions. Performativity: the idea that certain social factors such as gender, are socially constructed then acted out using words and behaviors that have come to be associated with what it means to be, say, male or female. Conflict theory: focuses on how one group the more powerful one benefits more than another group from differentiation, exclusion, and institutional racism, the majority of groups seek to dominate minorities because it allows them to gain economic advantage and superiority.
