SOCA02H3 Chapter 10: chapter 10 race and ethnicity
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Lecture 1: chapter 10 race and ethnicity. 2 of the most oppressive forms of domination and injustice are colonization and slavery. people who face widespread prejudice and discrimination often enter sports, entertainment, and crime for lack of other ways to improve their social and economic position. prejudice attitude that judges a person on his/her group s real or imagined characteristics. discrimination unfair treatment of people because of their group membership. social circumstances have a big impact on athletic and other forms of behavior. some respected scholars believe that we all belong to one human race which originated in. race social construct used to distinguish people in terms of one or more physical markers. sociologists think that race matters because it allows social inequality to be created and perpetuated. race is to biology and ethnicity is to culture. ethnic groups comprise people whose perceived cultural markers are deemed significant.
