SOC102H1 Chapter Notes - Chapter 8: Lady Justice, Ethnic Group, Institutional Racism
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Conflict theory focuses inter society providing people with social links increases social cohesion within same ethnic group people totem : serve as basis for group solidarity powerful group benefits more than others from differentiation, exclusion, and institutional racism racialization introduce racial distinctions related to becker"s labelling theory majority group dominate minorities allowing them to gain economic advantage racial profiling : expect individuals act based on their race racial socialization : perceive and evaluate according to presumed racial differences dominants as people and everybody else and other racial oppression still. Postmodernism micro sociological aspects of race and discrimination racial labels and ethnic differences separation and reduced contact contribute to racial conflicts (chinatown, little italy) equal rights of racialized groups. Researchers use race and ethnicity to measure assimilation, acculturation, social mobility is within our social and legal institutions closely associated with intersectionality theory symbols are used to distinct between socially constructed communities (eg. race)
