SOCI 1001 Lecture Notes - Lecture 4: Peggy Mcintosh, Chinese Head Tax In Canada, Canadian Indian Residential School System
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Visible minorities: statistics canada definition= non-white people, other definition= minority access to power and resources (see little p. 329) Race: superficial physical differences that a particular society considers significant (little, p. 328). For sociologists race refers to a set of socially constructed ideas of peoples. Racialization: a social process that marks them [racialized people] for unequal treatment based on perceived physiological differences (little, p. 328). Ongoing process in individual lives and in the grander scope of social history. School: black culture equals gang and bad dress code. Ethnicity: shared culture the practices, values, and beliefs of a group (p. 329). Stereotypes: oversimplified ideas about groups of people (p. 332). Prejudice: beliefs, thoughts, feelings, and attitudes that someone holds about a group (p. 332). Discrimination: actions against a group of people (p. 332). Institutionalized racism: is when a societal system has developed an embedded disenfranchisement of a group (p. 333).