SOCA01H3 Lecture Notes - Lecture 11: Cultural Relativism, Visible Minority, Racialization
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Main focus: the way power and resources are unequally distributed among racial and ethnic groups. Satzewich: they are acquired rather than ascribed characteristics. Knezevic: ascribed characteristics are changeable, because they are socially constructed by both members and outsiders. Definitions of an ethnic group: objective (by language, culture, religion, customs, national origin, history, and ancestry) Common experience rather than common culture (liodakis) Are there ethnic canadians? : subjective (self-identification of group members) Anderson: imagined communities have socially constructed symbolic markers. Ethnicity and race (the concepts of self and other ) do not first appear in capitalism. Nation state appears with elements of capitalism within feudalism, caused by the need for enlarged market. Racialization: set of social processes and practices through which social relations among people are structured by the signification of human biological characteristics in such a way as to define and construct differentiated social collectivity"s (races) Behaviourally insignificant biological characteristics become socially significant in their consequences.
