SOC 507 Study Guide - Final Guide: Racialization, Ethnocentrism
23 Oct 2014
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Soc507 race and ethnicity: the formation of racial and ethnic identities is a social process, this process involves power relations and is therefore always political. Racialization involves: macro level processes, institutional politics, culture, ideology, micro level processes, interactions, interpretations, practices. Ethnicity and constructionism: all identity is relational self defined in relations to others , collective ethnic identity share consensus (but contested, diachronic dimensions historical, e. g. homeland, culture, synchronic dimensions existing in the present moment, e. g. the recognition of. Nation building: state formation: is the process of the development of a centralized government structure in a situation where one did not exist prior to its development, nation building: is the process of constructing or structuring a national identity using the power of the state, ethnocentrism: is the practice of perceiving and judging people from other cultures only in terms of one"s own culture. Immigration today in canada: categories, economic, family class, migrant workers, refugees, illegal migrants.
