SOC 1101 Lecture Notes - Lecture 9: Redneck, Institutional Racism, Visible Minority

• School: University of Ottawa
• Department: Sociology
• Course: SOC 1101
• Professor: William Flynn

Document Summary

Achieved, not described bc we don"t have fixed ethnic/racial characteristics. Racialization: viewed as different genetics, morality, values, due to different physical type/culture heritage: ppl look different because of adaptation, physical variation occurs gradually not abruptly over geo areas. Typologies: classification systems based on systematic organization into types of shared attributes: explains diversity europeen colonizers encounter, justifies colonial project. Classification of 4 kids of human species" (linnaeus: white europeans, red americans (redneck issue, yellow asians, black africans. 1800s: valid scientific category fit with political + economic state. Institutional racism: based on explicitly racist ideas, arose from, no longer sustained by, racist ideas, unintentionally restrict life-chances of certain groups, seemingly neutral. Visible minority: persons other than aboriginals, who are non-caucasian / non-white: too broad, should we base visibility on white-caucasians, other barriers apart from skin. The origins of species: (darwin) biological change and evolution; natural selection: social evolution: all ways of life pass thru similar development, social darwinism: others are techno/materially/mentally/bio inferior.