SOCI 461 Lecture Notes - Italian Canadians
3 Feb 2013
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Differ in terms of language, religion, customs, values, ancestors, etc. Race is biology as ethnicity is to culture. A race is a socially defined category of people whose perceived physical markers are deemed significant. An ethnic group comprises people whose perceived cultural markers are deemed significant. Just as physical distinctions don"t cause differences in behaviour of various races, so cultural distinctions are often not by themselves the major source of differences in behaviour of different ethnic groups. Ex. the social-structural disadvantages to blacks and aboriginals-not their culture-made them less economically successful than jews and koreans on average. Much of canadian research supports arguments that culture is unimportant in determining economic success of racial and ethnic groups. B/c social structural differences frequently underlie cultural differences. Differences in annual income b/w racial groups is largely due to factors such as years of education and number of years immigrants have been in the country.
