SOC100H5 Chapter Notes - Chapter 7: Herbert J. Gans, Institutional Racism, Symbolic Ethnicity
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Sociologists have identified certain social conditions that lead to high levels of participation in sports. These operate on all groups of people, whatever their race. Specifically, people who face widespread prejudice and discrimination often enter professional sports in disproportionately large numbers for lack of other ways to improve their social and economic standing. For such people, other avenues of upward mobility tend to be blocked. (prejudice is an attitude that judges a person on his or her group"s real or imagined characteristics. Discrimination is unfair treatment of people because of their group membership. ) Some respected scholars believe we all belong to one human race, which originated in. They argue that subsequent migration, geographical separation, and inbreeding led to the formation of more or less distinct races. However, particularly in modern times, humanity has experienced so much intermixing that race as a biological category has lost nearly all meaning.
