SOCI 1001 Final: Sociology Notes - Final.docx
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Structural explanations: stress social organization of society, or subsystems in society, that contribute to poverty, including: economy, with cyclical booms and busts (periods of low unemployment and high profits followed by high unemployment and low profits), and lack of good jobs, social policy, such as minimum wage legislation, tax collection and tax allocation, such as neutral taxes like gst and fuel taxes, ideological perspectives, which undervalue certain groups (e. g. , aboriginal peoples, recent immigrants, and members of visible minorities) and lead to their discrimination. Symbolic interactionists suggest development of racial and ethnic labels as well as ethnic and racial identities, is typically a process of negotiation: members of a group may have racial or an ethnic identity, but outsiders may impose new label on them, group members then reject, accept, or modify label, negotiation between outsiders and insiders eventually results in crystallization of new, more or less stable ethnic identity.
