SOC 1105 Study Guide - Final Guide: Critical Race Theory, Class Conflict, Symbolic Interactionism

• School: University of Ottawa
• Department: Sociology
• Course: SOC 1105
• Professor: Sam Alvaro

Document Summary

Aboriginal peoples: account for 3. 8% of the population, fastest growing segment of canadian population, despite impressive strides, remain at high risk for illness and die younger than the. 1 in 4 earns less than . 00 per hour: a race is a category composed of people who share biologically transmitted traits that members of a society deem socially significant. Race is a significant concept chiefly because most people consider it to be such: ethnicity is a shared cultural heritage. Races may also be analyzed as ethnic categories in many cases: a racial or ethnic minority is a category of people, distinguished by physical or cultural traits, who are socially disadvantages. Discrimination and racism: discrimination refers to a negative action toward members of a specific social group. Institutional discrimination occurs when a person acts on discriminatory guidelines of an institution (such as an employer: racism refers to the belief that one racial category is innately superior or inferior to another.