SOCA01H3 Lecture Notes - Lecture 11: Ethnocentrism, Chauvinism, Cultural Relativism

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19 Dec 2012
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120 mc, 30%-35% lectures and videos, 65%-70% textbook, non-cummulative. 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) - no: 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. Racialisation: 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 collectivities (races).

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