ANTHROP 1AB3 Lecture Notes - Lecture 11: Social Stratification, Peggy Mcintosh, White Privilege

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Race refers to : the presumed hereditary characteristics of a group of people, e. g. eye colour, thickness/texture of the hair, a culturally/socially constructed identity. Imagined as an ascribed status: ascribed something you are born into, something you cannot change, e. g. ethnicity, class (ascribed or achieved) Race is also : used erroneously as a form of social stratification and legal classification, e. g. American census a form of legal classification. Unequal access to 1) wealth or economic resources (things that have value); 2) power (ability to persuade others and often to control them); 3) prestige (respect and honour) Intensify as communities become large, develop agriculture, and develop the necessity for occupational specialization (different jobs: capitalism increased forms of social hierarchies like class. Class is seen as: achieved or ascribed, the american dream! The (cid:858)(cid:396)ags to (cid:396)i(cid:272)hes(cid:859) tale/myth a(cid:374)d (cid:271)elief that e(cid:395)ual oppo(cid:396)tu(cid:374)ities a(cid:396)e available to everyone: hindered by race, ethnicity, and other factors.

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