SOAN 2290 Lecture Notes - Lecture 4: Racialization, Hypodescent, Upper Class

• School: University of Guelph
• Department: Sociology and Anthropology
• Course: SOAN 2290
• Professor: D Rose

Document Summary

Ethnicity: the state of belonging to a social group with common identity. Primordial assumes ethnic identity is fixed, once its constructed . Constructivist crafted through social interaction and must be understood in terms of historical, political, economic, and political contexts. Benedict anderson, did not exist prior to its own recognition, imagined community. Instrumentalist resource for the pursuit of goals, resources, jobs. Suggest that the elites use and abuse the identities (material interest) Rockquemore uses the term identity as synonymous with self- understanding and something that must be recognized by others (ie interactionally validated self-understanding). Protean able to shift identification according to context. Transcendent able to see race as not particularly significant, but in her research this was only mentioned by people who were phenotypically white . Traditional identify as african american, rockquemore labels this group as traditional because they are following the american rule of hypodescent. Middle and upper class status of the respondents in the study (university students)