SY101 Chapter Notes - Chapter 7: Social Inequality
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Prejudice (144): attitude that judges a person on his or her group"s real or imagined characteristics. Discrimination (144): unfair treatment of people of their group membership. Genes determine the behaviour of racial groups. Sociologist find the term an invaluable analytical tool. People who use the term refer to socially significant physical differences rather than biological differences. Race (145): social construct used to distinguish people in terms of one or more physical markers: race matters allows social inequality. Scapegoat (145): blaming category of people for their own problems. Physical markers create inequality different social conditions perceptions of behaviour differences create stereotypes. Race to biology as ethnicity to culture. Ethnic group (146): cultural markers are significant. Determining economic success of ethnic/racial group is the resources they posses: what economic opportunities open to them. Vertical mosaic (147): highly ethnically and racially stratified society. Ethnic/racial culture does not determine economic success. Ethnic identity changes over time due to change in response by others.
