SOCA02H3 Chapter Notes -Asian Canadians, Hotel Rwanda, Social Inequality
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Race, biology, and society y aristocrats saw blue veins underneath their pale skin but couldn t see it under the peasant s suntanned skin, thus the aristocrats called themselves blue bloods y. In u. s. , since jews scores below non-jews on iq tests in 1920s, this argument was used as jewish. Ethnicity, culture, and social structure y race is to biology as ethnicity is to culture y. Ethnic group: comprises ppl whose perceived cultural markers are deemed significant: differ from one another in terms of language, religion, custom, values, ancestors, etc y. Ethnic values or physical distinctions have less effect on the way ppl behave: b/c social structural differences underlie cultural differences, ex) aboriginal or blacks (social structural disadvantage not culture made them less economically successful than jews/koreans. Ethnicity and racial stratification in canada y what matters in determining economic success are the kinds of economic opportunities open to ppl y.