SOCI 100B Chapter Notes - Chapter 1: Royal Canadian Mounted Police, First Nations, Cognitive Dissonance

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Minority a category of people who are physically or culturally distinguishable and who are socially disadvantaged. The definition accentuates that is it not the number of people involved but rather their lack of social power. Race a category of people who share biologically transmitted trait (skin color, hair texture, facial features) *make a point of underlining the word race (because i realize the historical role that race plays) in notes. Trait of race have no behavioural affect on people. The term is loaded with historical baggage (thus the quotation marks) and it remains a problem today. Anti-positivism: choosing to giving someone a speeding ticket, feelings about grades. Gender binary: only two genders with specific stereotypes (why this definition is important to sociology) Gender is socially constructed, so ti can be socially deconstructed. Social surplus, men control the surplus because they created it. Division of labour # of jobs to be created.

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