SY101 Lecture Notes - Lecture 7: Racial Profiling, Culture Of Asia, Visible Minority

• School: WLU
• Department: Sociology
• Course: SY101
• Professor: Dana Sawchuk

Document Summary

First african american to get a degree from harvard. Race and ethnicity: socially constructed categories. Race not necessarily a biological category, but is a mind set. Skin colour not genetically significant but is socially important. Frustration-aggression theory (scapegoat theory: frustration aggression vented in scapegoats. Socialization: how socialization can lead to certain racist beliefs and behaviours, racism taught by family, peer groups, mass media, cartoons: middle class, normal voice, villains: accents, shape of nose, shape of eyes, darker complexion. Absence of representation: dylan marron: every single word spoken by a person of color in . Split-labor market theory: both capitalist elites and white workers benefit from exploitation of visible minorities, minority workers (low wage) white workers (high wage) owners. Colonialism: people from one country invading another country, taking political, economic, cultural control, natives cast as inferior . Internal colonialism: one group dominating another within same country, segregation of subordinate group.