SOCIOL 1A06 Chapter Notes -Meritocracy, Working Mother, Risk Society
12 Jun 2012
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C h a p t e r 9. All these changes were in response to social realities. People recognized broad physical differences between groups of people, but they did not discriminate based on those differences: as europeans came into contact with different peoples and cultures during the age of. Exploration, racism was used to justify the conquest and colonization of foreign lands: in the nineteenth century there were a number of scientists and thinkers researching and attempting to explain racial differences. A recent example of racialization is the anti-muslim backlash in america since 9/11. An ethnic identity becomes racialized when it is subsumed under a forced label, racial marker, or otherness. : symbolic ethnicity is ethnicity that is individualistic in nature and without real social cost for the individual. Whites who explore and express an affinity for their. European roots can be said to be adopting a symbolic ethnicity.
