SOC101Y1 Chapter : Race and Ethnic Relations Notes
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Sociology of race and ethnic relations: concerns primarily study of how power and resources are unequally distributed among racial and ethnic groups. what are social consequences of unequal distribution of power and resources? y other questions include: Misguided assumption that race and ethnicity are ascribed statuses rather than achieved statuses (i. e. , statuses acquired by virtue of social definition) Sociologists recognize that ethnicity and race are socially defined and do change they are acquired rather than ascribed characteristics. Prejudice: unfavorable, generalized and rigid belief applied to all members of a group. Discrimination: practices that deny members of particular groups equal access to societal. Race: socially constructed label used to describe certain kinds of physical differences between people. Genetic differences between racial groups are arbitrary, small, and behaviorally insignificant. Despite social construction, race and ethnicity are important parts of our social reality.
