SOC 1101 Lecture 11: SOC1101 Chapter 10
4 Mar 2017
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Despite impressive strides, they remain at higher risk for illness and die younger than. 1 in 4 earns less than 10$/h. Race and ethnicity race: category composed of people who share biologically transmitted traits that members of a society deem socially significant: significant concept b/c most people consider it to be such. Ethnicity: shared cultural heritage: races may also be analyzed as ethnic categories in many cases. Ex; segregation in usa (black peoples, aboriginals) Never been segregation in ca *eric fawn. Negative assessment about what a person or group is like before you actually meet them *can also be good. Ecological fallacy: drawing conclusions about indiv attributes from data gathered from an entire group. Exception fallacy: drawing conclusions about an entire group based on observations of individuals. Stereotype: sweeping generalizations about a category of people that are applied to all members of that category. (cid:862)old fashio(cid:374)ed(cid:863) ra(cid:272)is(cid:373) (cid:272)o(cid:373)prises (cid:271)lata(cid:374)tl(cid:455) (cid:374)egati(cid:448)e ra(cid:272)ial stereotypes and open opposition to racial equality.
