SOC210H1 Lecture 2: Ethnicity Study Notes Lec2.doc
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Robert park predicted race and ethnic ties would disappear as early as 1926. Dubois (was another sociologist) was famously quoted in 1903 as saying that the problem of the twentieth century is the problem of the color-line. (thus, he had an opposite prediction as that of park. He was right and his prediction is still right. Thus, there is this other sociologist who was making accurate predictions at that time). We talked about this a little last class, but there are important distinctions that we will address this class. Course pack reading: cornell and hartmann mapping the terrains". ***she will ask multiple questions on the test from this reading. We talked about the primordial approach, which held that before we had any agency to make a decision for ourselves, our identities were decided for us at birth. We also looked at the problems with this approach. Barth was one of the first to suggest that ethnicity was socially constructed.
