SOC100H5 Lecture : Chapter 14 - Race & Ethnicity - pp.324-347
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A socially constructed category of people who share biologically transmitted traits that members of a society consider important: scientists created 3 broad categories of race causcasoids, Mongloids and negroids- there are no biologically pure races. It is reflected in ancestry, dress, religion, language. A minority is any category of people distinguished by physical or cultural difference that a society sets apart and subordinates. A rigid and unfair generalization about an entire category of people. A simplified description applied to every person in some category. **aboriginal people are stereotyped by some as lacking motivation, but most poor people are white. The belief that one racial category is innately superior or inferior to another. ** racial conflict has intensified in britain and western european societies due to immigration from former colonies. Scapegoat theory: prejudice springs from frustration among people who are themselves disadvantaged www. notesolution. com. People blame them for their own troubles.
