REC100 Lecture Notes - Lecture 3: Melting Pot, Social Constructionism, Cultural Learning
29 May 2020
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Alleviate conflict an hostility between different groups by putting them together under specific conditions: equal status of participants, achievement of common goals, cooperative interaction. Racialized ethnicity: when a person uses one descriptor to identify both race and ethnicity. Social constructionism: considers knowledge to be derived from, and rely upon, social context: may differ from societies and time, visible minorities: persons, other than aboriginal peoples, who are non-caucasian in race or non- white in colour. Culture: system of shared beliefs, values, customs, behaviours, and artifacts. Shared: sharing culture with other members helps us to act in socially appropriate ways and predict how others act, culture is not homogenous, many cultural worlds that exist in any society. Learned: enculturation: process of learning culture, varies in the way we fulfill needs, cultural transmission is unconscious. Symbols: something that stands for something else, vary cross-culturally and are arbitrary, language, money, art.
