Social Service Worker SSW101 Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: Racialization, Stereotype, European Canadian
14 Dec 2017
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The market value and social value of race. Race is an ascribed feature of people. It signifies physical and cultural characteristics by birth. But in reality it is society who gives it significance. When society (usually dominant group) attributes social significance to group on superficial physical grounds. Over time, racialization systematically pairs superficial features of people with social characteristics that the social import of race comes from a natural origin, and not society"s attribution: discrimination, stereotyping, overt and unconscious. Racialization produces two outcomes in canadian society. The social value: a social hierarchy of race where some groups are socially desirable or undesirable: the market value: unequal earnings in the labour market with those of. European origin having higher average earning than other canadians. Racialization makes it socially meaningful to regard people on racial grounds, and it attributes social value to people according to racial origin. It allowed and justified the government to segregate people for different treatment.
