Sociology 2143E Chapter Notes -Cultural Relativism, Monogenism, Labour Power
10 Oct 2014
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Ascriptive characteristics: social characteristics with which we are born, such as sex and skin colour. Assimiliation: processes by which minority groups adopt the hegemonic culture of a society. Behavioural assimilation: the acquisition of dominant group cultural values by minority groups. Collective consciousness: durkheim"s idea that pre-modern societies were cohesive because they were based on sameness and the conformity of individual consciousness to the collective. This created social group boundaries and love for one"s own". Critical race theory: a diverse body of work that focuses on racial" inequalities in the distribution of social goods and services. Cultural relativism: not evaluation other cultures with criteria derived from our own. Environmentalism: the idea that ethnic groups are the product of their shared physical environment. Essentialism: the belief that social groups and individual members of these groups have a true essence that is irreducible, unchanging, and constitutive of a given person. Ethnocentrism: the evaluation of other cultures with criteria from our own culture.
