SOC 001 Chapter Notes - Chapter 6: Racial Profiling, Jim Crow Laws, Exploitation Of Labour

• School: University of Vermont
• Department: Sociology
• Course: SOC 001
• Professor: Thomas Macias

Document Summary

White privilege - rights or immunities granted to people as a particular benefit or favor simply because they are white. Racial formation - a sociohistorical process in which racial categories are created, inhibited, transformed and destroyed. Social construction of race - the process by which ppl come to define a group as a race based in part on physical characteristics, but also on historical, cultural and economic factors. Stereotypes - unreliable generalizations about all members of a group that to not recognize individual differences within the group. Racial group - a group that is set apart from others bc of obvious physical differences. Ethnic group - set apart from others primarily because of its national origin or distinctive cultural patterns. Symbolic ethnicity - an emphasis on such concerns as ethnic food or political issues rather than on deeper ties to one"s ethnic heritage. Immigration policies often determined who could enter the us.