Kinesiology 2250A/B Lecture Notes - Lecture 3: Human Genome Project, Societal Racism, Visible Minority
27 Sep 2018
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Gender in (cid:498)the model(cid:499): social construction of (cid:523)my(cid:524) sport experience. Individual characteristics that take on social meaning: can lead to systematic patterns of differential treatment. Case 5: what color is black? visible: a socially constructed classification (therefore open for contestation) system based on, ethnic population: a category of people regarded as socially distinct because they share a. Minority group: experience discrimination, suffer social disadvantages because of discrimination, possess a strong self-consciousness based on their shared experiences of discriminatory treatment, experience of asymmetrical power relationships, n. b. White as the (cid:498)standard measurement(cid:499: appearance and action of whites are normal/not primitive/ no deviation =unmarked, deviations= not normal/strange/primitive /immoral. Justification of colonialism: hierarchical classification of societies/ cultures (social darwinism) Racial categories are social creations based on meanings given to selected physical traits. Race is not a valid biological concept (human genome project) Racial classifications are fuzzy because they are based on continuous traits with arbitrary lines drawn to create categories.
