SOC 105 Lecture 6: SOC 105 – LECTURE 6
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200 distinct ethnic group in canada: not the same thing as nationality. Smallest ethnic group in canada: dinka 500 people who identify as his. Majority and minority groups: talks about power, prestige, privilege. A social power, economic power, political : minority lack all of the above, members typically experience unequal treatment in everyday institution, higher levels of solidarity. Ethnocentrism: tendency to hold on your own group standings about your group"s way of doing things, believing that you culture is the right one celebrating, mourning, praying, etc. Prejudice and discrimination are frequently bus not always related. Discrimination: action, behaviour, when thinking about discrimination, narrow and simplistic (a mistake, polite discrimination against minority group, unconscious bad duties at work, picking on student (frequent) Diaspora concept from 1990"s: applied to jewish people and people from mesina, the way in which late modernity has created displaced peoples, 1. Members have collective memory myth of homeland: 2. Ancestral home is the true home: 3.
