SOC100H5 Chapter Notes - Chapter 7: Institutional Racism, Symbolic Interactionism, Ethnic Group
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The view persists that races differ biologically: eg: we commonly hear that black people are better than white people at sports, but this simply isn"t true as a general statement. Prejudice: an attitude that judges a person on his or her group"s real or imagined characteristics. Discrimination: unfair treatment of people because of their group membership. It is imposed, not chosen: it is impossible to neatly distinguish races based on genetic differences, influences things from your wealth, to health, to education. Scapegoat: a disadvantaged person or category of people whom others blame for their own problems, eg: the germans used jews as scapegoats for their deep economic problems after. Ethnic group: comprises people whose perceived cultural markers are deemed socially significant. Ethnic groups differ from one another in terms of language, religion, customs, values, ancestors, and the like: ethnic values have less of an effect on ethnic cultures than we commonly believe. Social structure differences frequently underlie cultural differences.
