SOC 103 Lecture Notes - Lecture 5: Ingroups And Outgroups, Cultural Appropriation, Institutional Racism

• School: Ryerson University
• Department: Sociology
• Course: SOC 103
• Professor: Chris Powell

Document Summary

Race is not a biological or natural fact within the human species. It is a social fact: a way of acting, whether fixed or changing, that exerts an external or objective constraint on individuals, by virtue of being general throughout society. Therefore racism cannot be abolished simply by refusing to talk about race; it can only be abolished by active ant-racist effort. Race: a group of people defined by supposed shared physical traits which are deemed socially significant, used to refer to a group of people from a common descent. Ethnicity: a group of people defined by supposed shared cultural traits which. Most people use (cid:498)race(cid:499) and (cid:498)ethnicity(cid:499) interchangeably, or use (cid:498)ethnicity(cid:499) as. Race refers to a group defined in terms of some combination of shared are deemed socially significant a euphemism physical features, genealogical descent, kinship, and/or culture, and assigned a place in social hierarchy on that basis.