SOC363H1 Lecture Notes - Lecture 5: Race And Ethnicity In The United States, Visible Minority, American Broadcasting Company
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Are the canadian and american realities different: the prevalence rates from the ncs-r. The black-white paradox: the point means that the group have less than a chance than the, a finding with many interpretations. Lower ses, more access to opportunity and yet fewer mental disorders stressful lives, more discrimination, lower sercurit, blocked: first this is sociology: race is treated as a socially construfted. Defining race sociologically category, not a biological reality. Listen to brown on race: a socially constructed status based on observed phenotypic difference that manifest largely irrelevant underlying differences in genotype on average group, based on shared experience. But, a further component: race signifies identity or attachment to a racial. Defining ethinicity: the voluntary grouping of individuals according to shared geographic origin and national heritage. Complexity: the problem of borders: blacks: could be subdivided into multigenerational, caribbean, recent africn, and european origins, hispanic: puerto rican (closer relationship with us)
