Sociology 1020 Chapter Notes - Chapter 10: W. E. B. Du Bois, Essentialism, Fur Trade
15 May 2020
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Race and place: depending on location, the concept of race has emerged in different forms at different times, or perhaps not at all, explaining local variants demographic, economic, and politics. How do sociologists define racism and discrimination: racism includes 2 phenomena: (1) prejudice (2) discrimination, prejudice: negative beliefs, feelings, or attitudes held about entire groups broadly applied and are based on subjective and often inaccurate information. Individual discrimination: an action carried out by an individual or small group that harms one or more individuals based on their group membership. Implicit prejudice:involving stereotypes that can be activated in our minds without our being aware of them. Institutional/structural discrimination: occurs when the actions or policies of organizations or social institutions exclude, disadvantage, or harm members of particular groups. Immigration: the act of arriving and settling in one place. White settler society 1600s-1800s: first settlers in canada colonists came to expand french and british.
