SOCIOL 103 Chapter Notes - Chapter 3(sp): Social Learning Theory, Racialization, Genocide Of Indigenous Peoples
14 Dec 2017
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3. 1: racial and ethnic inequality: a historical prelude. Us history is filled with violence and other maltreatment against native americans, Social scientists warn that the status of color has been worsening blacks, and immigrants. Race: a category of people who share certain inherited physical characteristics, such as skin color, facial features, and stature. Ethnicity: the shared social, cultural, and historical experiences, stemming from common national or regional backgrounds, that make subgroups of a population different from one another. Ethnic group: a subgroup of a population with a set of shared social, cultural, and historical experiences; with relatively distinctive beliefs, values, and behaviors; and with some sense of identity of belonging to the subgroup. Sociologists think race is best considered a social construction rather than a biological. Ethnicity and ethnic avoid the biological connotations of race and racial category. Prejudice (racial and ethnic): refers to a set of negative attitudes, beliefs, and ethnicity.
