SOC100H5 Chapter Notes - Chapter 7: Symbolic Ethnicity, Race Matters, Institutional Racism
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The social setting in which a person is raised and educated has a big impact on iq. The average iq of members of racial and ethnic groups has nothing to do with biology. People who face widespread prejudice and discrimination often enter sports in disproportionately large numbers for lack of other ways to improve their social and economic standings: other avenues of upward mobility tend to be blocked. Prejudice an attitude that judges a person by his or her groups real or imagined characteristics. Discrimination unfair treatment of people because of their group membership. Racial mixing genes determine the behavior of racial groups: can distinguish race based on genetic differences people who report multiple racial identities have parents of different racial origins, ex. *refer to figure 7. 1 on page 145 the vicious circle of racism. Race is to biology as ethnicity is to culture. Ethnic group comprises people whose perceived cultural markers are deemed socially significant.
