SOC102H1 Chapter Notes - Chapter 2 & 8: Edward Said, Institutional Racism, Conflict Theories
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Visible minority (racialized minority): other than aboriginal persons, who are non- Racialization: to view and group humans according to their visible characteristics. Critical race theory (crt): view race as a performance, not an innate quality. Functionalism: the existence of recialized group as a way of providing people with the social link they need to survive. Group solidarity maintain through social practice: religion, custom ethnic solidarity and distinction based on rituals and rituals objects that durkheim called totems. Ethnic solidarity increases social cohesion among people of the same ethnic group. Conflict theory: how one group (the more powerful group) benefit more than another group from differentiation, exclusion, and institutional racism. The majority groups seek to dominate minorities because this allows tem to gain an economic advantage, but also because domination makes them feel superior. Symbolic interactionism: microsociological aspects of race and discrimination, such as the way people construct ethnic differences and racial labels to subordinate minority group.
