SOC 1100 Chapter Notes - Chapter 14: Japanese Canadians, Miscegenation, Reproduction

• School: University of Guelph
• Department: Sociology
• Course: SOC 1100
• Professor: Karyn Freedman

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Race: a socially constructed category of people who share biologically transmitted traits that members of a society consider important. (caucasian, negroid, Scientists invented the concept of (cid:498)race(cid:499) in the 19th century. The three racial categories differ in only 6% of their genes. Canadian census identifies people as aboriginal, black, and visible minority. Objective criteria: ancestry, dress, religion, and language. (18% of canadians have a mother language other than english or french) Subjective criteria: the internalization of a distinctive social identity. Ethnic distinctiveness should not be viewed as racial. Minorities: a minority is any category of people distinguished by physical or cultural difference that a society sets apart and subordinates. (not always less than. Authoritarian personality theory: a personality trait of certain individuals. Scapegoat theory: prejudice springs from frustration among people who. Prejudice: a rigid and unfair generalization about an entire category of people. are themselves disadvantaged.