SOC 104 Lecture Notes - Lecture 10: Ethnic Group, Social Forces
15 Feb 2018
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Issues of inequality race and ethnicity in canada. Social construct: social phenomenon invented by human beings and is shaped by the social forces present in the time and place of its creation. To say something is constructed does not mean it is not real or powerful. To say race is a social construction means: race is a classification system that is invented, created by human beings and therefore is something that is made rather than something that is natural or biological. Socially created not the work of a single individual but rather the product of masses of people who form a society ways of acting, thinking; race is like language in this way. Societies change and so do their ideas of race. The idea of who is white has changed over time: many people whom we consider to be white today would not have been classified as such a century ago (irish, jewish, and other european ancestors were routinely excluded)
