SOC100H5 Chapter Notes - Chapter 7: Institutional Racism, Social Science, Pierre Trudeau
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Prejudice is an attitude towards a group, discrimination is an act against a group. Some biologist and social scientist say we should drop the term race from our vocabulary because humanity has experienced much intermixing that race as a biological category has lost nearly all its meaning. Race: a social construct used to distinguish people in terms of physical markers. Social structural disadvantage contribute to being less economically successful opposed to culture. What really matters in determining economic success is the resources, like education. Vertical mosaic: highly ethnically and racially stratified society. After ww2, many different ethnic groups had success in the economy. Change your social context and our racial and ethnic identity change too eventually. Institutional racism: bias that is inherent in social institutions and is often not noticed by the majority. Internal colonialism: one race or group controlling another in the same country. Expulsion: forcible removal of one group by another in a place.
