SOCL 2001 Lecture Notes - Lecture 3: State Ownership, Glass Ceiling, Economic Planning
Document Summary
Race: myth and reality: reality of human variety, then myth of pure races, the myth of a fixed number of races, the myth of racial superiority, the myth continues. Minority groups and dominant groups: not size, but dominance and discrimination, emergence of minority groups. Ethnic work: constructing our racial-ethnic identity: ethnic work. Individual and institutional discrimination: home mortgages, health care. Psychological perspective: frustration and scapegoats, the authoritarian personality. Sociological perspectives (cid:1) (cid:1) (cid:1: functionalism, conflict theory, racial symbolic interactionism. Population transfer: indirect transfer, labeling a group as inferior facilitates genocide, direct transfer. Internal colonialism & segregation: internal colonialism, segregation. European americans: wasps (white anglo saxon protestant, white ethnics. Latinos (hispanics: umbrella terms, countries of origin, unauthorized immigrants, residence, spanish, economic well-being, politics. A sociological debate: racism as everyday burden. Asian americans: a background of discrimination, diversity, reasons for financial success, politics. Native americans: diversity of groups, from treaties to genocide and population transfer, the invisible minority and self determination, pan-indianism.
