SOCI 210 Lecture Notes - Lecture 12: Field Experiment, Visible Minority, Asian Canadians
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Social construction of race & ethnicity part 2. Race ethnicity and inequality: last class: thomas principle, if people believe smt is real, then it is real in its effects. Ind level: what happens when translating prejudice in discrimination depends on who you are as a person, realistic conflict theory (origin, group level, competition among groups for scarce resources. Imagined as communities: the way we imagine ourselves in our relationship to others in a deep horizontal comradeship, have national armies and willing to go off and die for this community. Idea of nation when born in western europe: mostly white nation: cannot think of nation communities without ethnicity and race. Answer in canada: multiculturalism: basic level: demographic description, origins of our pop are changing over time to become more diverse. Tensions despite multiculturalism: evidence of racism and discriminatory treatment, particularly in african- and.
