SOC 1100 Lecture Notes - Lecture 11: Visible Minority, Negroid, Blacks In France

• School: University of Guelph
• Department: Sociology
• Course: SOC 1100
• Professor: Deanna Behnke- Cook

Document Summary

Race: a socially constructed category of people who share biologically transmited traits that members of a society consider important. Scienists invented the concept of race in the nineteenth century. The three racial categories difer in only 6% of their genes, less than the geneic variaion within each category. The canadian census asks people to idenify themselves as aboriginal, black, and visible. Today, many dark- and light-skinned people have muliracial ancestry. Objecive criteria: ancestry, dress, religion, language: 18% of the canadian populaion claim languages other than french or. Subjecive criteria: the internalizaion of a disincive social idenity. Important: ethnic disinciveness should not be viewed as racial. A minority is any category of people disinguished by physical or cultural diference that a society sets apart and subordinates. Though not always less than 50% o e. g. women and blacks in south africa. Prejudice: a rigid and unfair generalizaion about an enire category of people.