SOC 104 Lecture Notes - Lecture 11: Naimans, Stereotype Threat, Chauvinism

• School: Ryerson University
• Department: Sociology
• Course: SOC 104
• Professor: Lock Rebecca

Document Summary

Terms relating to race, ethnicity and inequality. Refers to similar characteristics in people, plants, animals. In 18th century, the idea of these characteristics as physical or biological develops: more specific about the meaning, meaning that endures today. In everyday speech (today), race is invoked through colour and nationality. The genetic difference within racial groups may be greater than the genetic. The social mistake: we see colour/physical features we overestimate genetic difference between racial groups similarities (and difference). reality. Race is a social and interpretively assumed difference rather than physiological. Anxiety makes people to not do their best. Stereotype became more likely to intimidate for example the african american subjects. Intimidation and stereotype threat comes to a more general type of intimidation that is imposed on social existence. April 4, 2016 is no sense of stereotyping: in the broader culture: show diverse representations of things so that there, think about the presentation of tests, rewording tests.