SOC101Y1 Study Guide - Midterm Guide: Orthodox Marxism, Institutional Racism, Sociobiology

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31 Dec 2013
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Objective definitions of ethnicity assume 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 and ancestry. Subjective approaches to ethnicity focus on the process of ethnic identification. Sociologists define racism as both a certain kind of idea and a certain kind of institutional practice. Sociologists define racism as the belief that humans are subdivided into distinct hereditary groups that are innately different in their social behaviour and mental capacities and that can therefore be ranked as superior or inferior . The concept of new racism was developed by martin barker to analyze the way that ideas were being expressed in the 1970"s by. British members of parliament, when they were speaking out about. British immigration policy (used the excuse of biological inferiority/ superiority and cultural differences)