SOCIO-120 Lecture Notes - Lecture 15: Institutional Racism, Racial Profiling, Sociobiology
Document Summary
Race: socially constructed label used to describe certain kinds of physical differences between people. Genetic differences between racial groups are arbitrary, small, and behaviorally insignificant. Despite social construction, race and ethnicity are important parts of our social reality. Many continue to believe in existence of race and ethnicity and organize their relationships with others based on those beliefs: this can be marital, social, neighbor etc. Racism biological versions refer to belief that: humans are subdivided into distinct hereditary groups that are innately different in social behaviour and mental capacities, and. Institutional racism discriminatory racial practices built into the structure of politics, economic life, and education. Racial profiling( when you are singled out by your physical attributes), height and weight requirements for policing and fire fighters. Four main approaches that seek to explain various forms of ethnic and racial hostility: Focus on how prejudice and racism satisfy psychic needs of certain people.
