SOCIOL 1A06 Chapter Notes - Chapter 8: Orthodox Marxism, Institutional Racism, Indian Act
13 Nov 2016
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Chapter 8: race & ethnic relations: the sociology of ethnic and racial relations concerns primarily the study of how power and resources are unequally distributed among ethnic and racial groups. Ethnicity: from this point of view, ethnicity is something that people possess because of differences in language, culture, customs, national origin, and ancestry. unalterable ethnic and racial characteristics or identities. Instead, they regarded immigrants from these areas as culturally different from. Institutional racism discriminatory racial practices built into such prominent structures as the political, economic and education systems. Theories of race and ethnic relations: there are a number of sociological approaches to the interpretation of race and ethnic relations. explains prejudice and racism as forms of hostility that arise from frustration. It is used by capitalists to mystify social reality and justify the exploitation and the unequal treatment of groups of people. In canada, the name innuit has replaced the earlier name eskimo.
