SOCIOL 1A06 Lecture Notes - Institutional Racism, Visible Minority, Siq
13 Apr 2014
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Ethnic groups are distinguished by ancestry, culture, and social location . Differ form ethnic groups -> visible physical characteristics( reason) Socially defined as significant in their social consequences. Social significance of categories of race and ethnicity. Life chances, opportunities shapes our race and ethnicity. What they are born with( race and ethnicity) 1950s, race was used by scientists or particular groups, use as a consumption of category. The genetic differences between races are infected extremely small and essentially significant. Objective definitions of ethnicity: ethnicity as fixed and static. What language do you speak, what is your culture etc. Subjective approaches to ethnicity: ethnic identity as variable and flexible. Ex: experience of visible minority university students described (henry and tator) Ex: quebec civic nationalism versus ethnic nationalists (new society) Ethnicity and race and organize their relationship with others on the basis of those beliefs. Discriminatory racial practices built into institutions(political, economic, education systems)
