SOC 001 Lecture Notes - Lecture 10: Housing Segregation In The United States, White Flight, Redlining

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

Document Summary

Prejudice: negative attitude toward an entire category of people. Ethnocentrism : tendency to assume one"s culture and way of life are superior to others. Racism : belief that one race is supreme and others are innately inferior. Discrimination : negative treatment/denial of opportunities and equal rights to individuals and groups based on some arbitrary bias/prejudice. Racial formation the socio-historical process through which meaningful categories are formulated. Race is human history mapped on our skin and appearance. Racialization social meaning attributed to racial differences (tied to material wealth) Slavery race permits the economic exploitation of human beings as property. The racial state institutions of government that enforce race relations. After wwii: mass exodus of white people from the city to suburbia: white flight . Since the fair housing act of 1968, housing segregation became more subtle. 0 = perfectly integrated city // 100 = whites and blacks are completely segregated from each other. Few economic opportunities & few middle-class role models.