SOC445H5 Study Guide - Midterm Guide: Shutter Speed, Cultural Hegemony, The Philadelphia Negro
Document Summary
Ethnicity and race are key organizing principles. Ethnicity and race shape our experiences, opportunities, and identities. Attention is shifted away from biological inferiority and superiority. Using language of race that excludes by using seemingly non-racist liberal criteria: culture, religion, civic engagement, national culture, identity. Cultural explanations to justify the standing of minorities in society. Framework for political, economic, social, cultural structures of inequality and systems of dominance based on race. Creates and maintains a system of dominance based on race and it is reproduced through socialization and cultural transmission. Racism is expressed mostly indirectly and subtly. Racist assumptions provide explanations for us as we need them, alleviate stress through the assumptions. Migration has changed over time, increasingly frequent. Changes often favour certain groups over others. Those groups that are favoured tend to be those who are white. Categorization was born out of immigration processes (contact and mixing)
