SOC 101 Lecture Notes - Faulty Generalization, Ethnocentrism, Honorary Whites

• School: Syracuse University
• Department: Sociology
• Course: SOC 101
• Professor: Rubin

Document Summary

Race: a category of people who have been singled out as inferior or superior, often on the basis of subjectively selected physical attributes. Eye shape: popular conceptions, biological and social scientific perspectives. Race is a creation of culture hat reflects social distinctions and power (p. 345) Ethnicity: group distinguished, by others or themselves, on the basis of cultural or national characteristics. Ethnocentrism (belief that ones group is superior to others) Tendency to occupy a particular geographic area (own nation- state or groups concentrated in specific cities: hispanic ethnicity (spanish speaking origin) Set of attitudes, beliefs, and practices that is used to justify the different treatment of racial or ethnic groups: overt versus covert. Covert more subtle, not necessarily public displays of. Attitude based on a faulty generalization about members of a particular group. Tendency to regard one"s own group as superior to other groups: stereotypes. Overgeneralizations in which individual characteristics are attributed to an entire group.