SOC100 Lecture Notes - Lecture 23: Primordialism, Private School, Racialization

• School: University of Alberta
• Department: Sociology
• Course: SOC100
• Professor: Randy Nixon

Document Summary

Continuation of chapter 11: ethnic and race relations. A brief history of race and ethnicity: max weber cont"d. People are attached to one another and their communities of origin because of their blood ties. People"s feelings of affinity, attachment, acceptance, trust, and intimacy toward their own kind . Weber believed that almost any kind of similarity or contrast can induce a. Such beliefs can lead to monopolistic closure : Economic, political, and social processes where members of the in-group ( we / self ) have access to scarce resources and members of the out-group ( they / the other ) do not. Any cultural/physical similarities create a a feeling of affinity and overtime creates an us versus them . Refers to a set of social processes and practices whereby social relations among people are structured according to human biological characteristics. Social positions of superiority and inferiority are created through processes of racialization. A social order is built upon these processes.