SOC 101 Lecture Notes - Lecture 7: Thomas Luckmann, Ancestry.Com, Ethnocentrism

• School: University at Buffalo
• Department: Sociology
• Course: SOC 101
• Professor: Miranda Workman

Document Summary

Sociology 101 ( race and ethnicity ) (october 9, 2017) A. socially constructed category of people who share biologically transmitted traits. Belief that all knowledge is is created/maintained by social interactions. Other races (e. g- categorizing people based on skin colour is rooted in historical contexts: slavery) Ethnicity: unique cultural traits, sense of community, feeling of ethnocentrism, ascribed, complex ethnicities membership . Dna testing that reveals your genealogy in multiple percentages. Minority groups: any group of people who are singled out for differential and unequal treatment, and regard themselves as objects of collective discrimination. Dominant and subordinate groups: prejudice springs from frustration among people who are themselves disadvantaged, a scapegoat is a person or category of people, typically with little power, whom other people unfairly blame for their own troubles. Stereotypes: appearance, behavior, or other characteristics of members of a particular category (usually exaggerated)