SOCI 1001H Lecture Notes - Lecture 8: Bogardus Social Distance Scale, Social Distance
17 Nov 2016
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Race, ethnicity and stratification part 2: race, ethnicity and stratification in general, majority/minority, and power relations, ethnicity/ethic groups, race (a socio-cultural understanding, racism, discrimination: overt and systemic/institutional, prejudice: bogardus social distance scale". The ordering of ethnic groups into a hierarchy of inequality, where some groups are dominant and hold greater power over other subordinate ethic groups. Hierarchical ranking: who gets what and in what amounts. Unequal power: where you sit on the stratification system. A group who, as a result of their shared cultural traits and a high level of interaction, regard themselves and are regarded as a cultural unit. Unique cultural traits language, clothing, custom. Membership from birth born into it. Sense of distinctiveness sense of boundaries from other groups and from group insiders and outsiders: boundary of group. Way we interpret cultural traits & factors. Refers to the social construction" of a category of difference between populations of people.
