SOC 507 Lecture Notes - Lecture 2: Social Inequality, Critical Race Theory, Institutional Racism
16 Apr 2018
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Nations, ethnic groups, races are one of the natural divisions of the human race: there is something natural and inevitable about groups of people wanting to. Stick together : group members are believed to share a genetic heritage that give rises to spontaneous/emotional attachment. Human behaviour cannot be explained by cultural or environmental factors alone. Evolutionary origins (biology and genes) must be taken into account when attempting to understand behaviour. Assimilation: the process by which a person or a group"s language and/or culture come to resemble those of another group. Segmented assimilation: the idea that the society that immigrants and their children assimilate into is not itself homogenous. Behavioural assimilation: acquiring the dominant groups cultural values. Structural assimilation: integration of minorities into the economic, social, and political life of a country. As a condition/a gaze a white way of looking at the world. As a culture a white way of organizing social relations, governments, environments, etc.
