SOCL 2001 Chapter Notes - Chapter 8: Institutional Racism, Racial Profiling, De Jure
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Inherited physical characteristics: socially defined, facial features, body type, skin color, hair texture, etc, early study overlooked the (cid:862)so(cid:272)ially defi(cid:374)ed(cid:863) idea, stressed o(cid:374) (cid:271)iologi(cid:272)al/physi(cid:272)al attributes, race is primarily a social construction than biological (sociologists and anthropologists) Self-definition of race: first time in census, self-defined race: in 2000 1 to 19 possible groups, 2010: 9 million, 2. 9% of the total population, people multiracial. Ethnic groups: unique cultural traits, ascribed membership, sense of community, territoriality, dress, language, religion, speech pattern, subcultures, sense of peoplehood (gordon, 1964) like race, ethnicity is socially created and maintained. Prejudice: this is a dysfunction of stereotyping, preconceived, negative attitude and judgement toward an entire group, theories explaining prejudice, economic theory: when power and competition exist between 2 groups, ex: chinese americans vs european americans in 1930s in. Intolerant household/peer-group: authoritarian personality, some people are characterized by rigidity of outlook, intolerance, dislike for ambiguity, irrational attitudes, ca(cid:374)"t a(cid:272)(cid:272)ept differe(cid:374)(cid:272)es i(cid:374) perso(cid:374)ality.
