SOCIOL 1A06 Lecture Notes - Lecture 7: Occupational Inequality, Class Consciousness, Primordialism
1 Apr 2016
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Ethnic groups are distinguished by ancestry, culture, and social location . Races have relatively unique ancestries, cultures, and social collations too. In addition, races differ from ethnic groups and from one another in terms of visible physical characteristics, such as skin colour, that are socially defined as significant and that are therefore significant in their social consequences . Social significance of categories of race and ethnicity. Race and ethnicity as achieved statuses (these can change over time) Race and ethnicity as socially constructed (up until 50s, race was used as conceptual categories; often independent variable in experiments) Race as a biological myth (found that genetic diff. btwn races are small and insignificant) Objective definitions of ethnicity: ethnicity as fixed and static. Subjective approached to ethnicity: ethnic identity as variable and flexible (self identity) Include things like: how do you see yourself (do i see myself as serb. or can. Ethnicity is self defined by the person.
