SOC101Y1 Study Guide - Final Guide: Orthodox Marxism, Institutional Racism, Ipperwash Crisis
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5th of september 1995, dudley george is shot and killed by an o. p. p officer during chaotic altercations the day after the occupation of ipperwash started. The officer was convicted and trialed for criminal negligence causing death. Investigations showed racism in the opp and conservatory government at the time. Both are ascribed characters, but sociologists believe it is more useful to see race and ethnicity as certain kinds of achieved statuses. Objective definitions of ethnicity assume that ethnic groups exist because of people"s social attachments. From this point of view, ethnicity is something that people possess because of differences in; language, culture, customs, national origin, ancestry. Subjective approaches to ethnicity focus on the process of ethnic identification. Sociologists who emphasize the socially constructed nature of perceived reality insist that ethnicity is a transactional process. Ethnic groups are made up of people who identify themselves, or who are identified by others as belonging to the same ancestral or cultural group.