SOC100H5 Chapter Notes - Chapter 7: Institutional Racism, Symbolic Ethnicity, Ethnic Group
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Prejudice: feeling toward an individual because of them being part of a group (landlord doesn"t rent to gay people). Discrimination: taking actual action against such a group (minority individual not offered a job). Internment: detention/confinement of person/people in time of war. Race: social construct used to distinguish people based on physical markers. Scapegoat: disadvantaged person that others blame for their own problems. Ethnic group: people whose perceived cultural markers are socially significant. Vertical mosaic: highly ethnically and racially stratified society. Symbolic ethnicity: nostalgia towards one"s original traditions/culture that can be felt without incorporating it in everyday behavior. Racism: belief that a visible characteristic of a group indicates group inferiority and justifies discrimination. Institutional racism: bias that is inherent in social institutions but is often not noticed by members of the majority group (in courts, more blacks than whites are put to death). Friendly racism: attempt to disguise a dislike of others through normal behavior (addressing target group as.
