PS282 Chapter Notes - Chapter 7: Sexual Orientation, Ableism, Intersectionality
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Meanings and experiences shared by a group and communicated across generations. Behavioural norms taught to children, tradition reflected in literature or religious/political documents, a folk saying, routine cultural practice (specific elements) Quasi-biological definition of race in western psychological thought has often provided an intellectual basis for assumptions of racial superiority. Human racial groups are biologically much more alike than different. Most genetic variation exists within socially defined racial groups than between them. Race is socially defined on the basis of physical criteria (skin colour) Ethnicity is socially defined on the basis of cultural criteria (language, national origin, customs etc) and subjective culture. Ethnicity is social identity based on ancestry or culture of origin as modified by the culture in which one currently resides (greek ethnos = tribe) Gender = our understanding of what it means to be female or male, represents psychological and social processes including the distribution of resources and power.
