SOC 1101 Lecture Notes - Lecture 10: Social Stigma, Neocolonialism, Cultural Pluralism

• School: University of Ottawa
• Department: Sociology
• Course: SOC 1101
• Professor: Sam Alvaro

Document Summary

Intentional extermination of all members of a minority group. Force a minority to leave the country ir confines them to a particular location. Formal physical or social separation of dominant and minority groups. Minority group sheds its differences and assumes the traits of the dominant group. Minority groups retain their cultural identities and the larger society promotes cultural, ethnic and racial diversity. By the 1960s most former colonies had gained political independence, however, there was a continued dependence on western countries. Neo-colonialism has become known as the continuation of western colonialism by not only economic and political but also cultural. The dominance of western multinationals (mcdonald"s homogeneity, plundering of resources, sweatshops export of western values and cultures, Neoliberal policies of the wto, imf and world bank. The policy that newcomers should follow the path of anglo conformity, but most groups do not reach full assimilation. Originally never crossed an ocean, left their borders, or crossed into us border.