SOCI 201 Lecture Notes - Lecture 2: Institutional Racism, Scientific Racism, Ascribed Status
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After this class, students will be able to: differentiate between prejudice and discrimination, explain how race is a socially constructed category. Identify and define six types of racism: outline how various approaches interpret racial crimes. We know that stereotyping occurs when we exaggerate oversimplified images of. We also know that racism is the combination of prejudice (unfavourable, generalized and rigid beliefs applied to all members of a group) and discrimination (practices that deny groups equal access to societal rewards). Lucius outlaw- toward a critical theory of race : we need to examine the career of the term race . It is unclear whether the term derives from an arabic, latin or a german source: first (recorded) use in english by william dunbar in 1508 in a poem. It initially was used to denote a class of persons or things. In the 19 th and 20th centuries, however, it came to signify groups that were distinguished biologically.
