SOCI 101 Lecture Notes - Lecture 25: Institutional Racism, Thomas Theorem, Human Genome
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Race & ethnicity, social construction & race, thomas theorem , stereotypes, racism. Groups of people who are distinguished based on perceived physical and biological characteristics. Social group that shares perceived common cultural practices and origins. Distinctions of race change with culture and time: Categorization of race changes through history across nations. America, latinos and race migrations ~ wendy roth. Racial categorizations in census forms vary widely between countries and across time in the same country. Observed characteristics do not map onto other differences. There is more within group variation than between group variation in races. Thomas theorem: if men [and women] define situations as real, they are real in their consequences. Consequences of distinctions and evaluations related to race and ethnicity: Canadian history, discrimination and justification of abuses. Defining groups according to race and assigning inferiority and. We are stereotyped in terms of a whole set of groups we belong to.
