SOCIOL 1A06 Lecture Notes - Racial Profiling, Institutional Racism, Siq
8 Mar 2014
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Ethnic groups are distinguished by ancestry, culture, and social location . Races have relatively unique ancestries, culture, and social locations too. In addition, races differ from ethnic groups and from one another . Social significance of categories of race and ethnicity. Race and ethnicity as achieved statuses - change over time. Race and ethnicity as socially constructed - (family, gender, etc. ) Race as a biological myth - insignificant. Race - 1950s - used to differentiate people (ns) Objective definitions of ethnicity: ethnicity as fixed and static (language, culture, origin) Subjective approaches to ethnicity: ethnic identity as variable and flexible (how do you see yourself - italian, canadian: change over time, situation specific, henry and tator - racism in the canadian university, ex. Experience of visible minority university students described: ex. Quebec: civic nationalism vs. ethnic nationalists (ns: ex. There, race and ethnicity are important parts of our social reality. Institutional practices that were originally racist but no longer are.
