race and ethinicity

when we exaggerate oversimplified images of the characteristics of social categories

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combination of prejudice and discrimination

• thought
• unfavourable generalized and rigid beliefs applied to all members of a group

• action
• practices that deny groups equal access to societal rewards

didnt begin with science but actually pre dates it

william dunbar in 1508

people posesses genetic material and were able to adjust to their environment

• biological traits not passed on
• not clones of our parents

biological

• over life we contruct meaning of race just as social class
• 1. racial classification are arbitrary
• 2.genetic differences between groups are small
• 3.genetic differences are behaviourally significant

• if people define situations as real, they are real in their consequences -thomas theorem
• beflief in race gives rise to interpersonal racism

• systematic- black people not gettin served
• systemic- height and weight restrictions for work

discriminatory racial practices built into structures such as political, economic and education system

word and ideas you use in everyday life

certain cultural values that we have

give life to believe race and how we treat other people

• biological
• psychological
• normative explanations

• ethnic grouping is natural
• discrimination prejudice and ethnocentrism will comtinue to happen

reason why people attracted to each other= genetical reality

• negroids- more succeptible to crime and violence
• caucasoids
• mongoloids-more intelligent and less crime

well born

• fustration with you life leads to aggresion
• ex fustration-agression theory

• prejudice and dicrimination passed on from generation to the other
• prejudice and discrimiantion socialized into children

• functionalist
• prejudice is result of group socialization and whoever is exposed to it will show discrimination
• various situations determine how people interpret norms

• discrimination occur before prjudice or stereotypes created
• most people cant attain success so blame others (discriminate) b/c they dont like taking responsibility for it

• well known canadian sociologist
• vertical mosaic is society which ethnic groups havedifferent and unequal positions in stratification system
• identified charter and netrance groups

• charter groups: take control and decide what other groups will be let inand what they can do
• in canada this includes english and french which take up top position
• entrance groups: culturally and racially inferior to charter group and were placed in lower level
• this grouo had limited chance for upward mobility

• hard to become wealthy in capitalist societ b/c of prejudice and discrimination
• immigrants blamed for situation of proletariat. result was :
• chinese head taxes
• exclusionary rules
• systemic discrimination: visible minority wages

• bussiness/capitalists
• highly paid (white) labour
• Lower paid (non white) labour
• bussiness class benefit from working class fighting
• racism caused by capitalism

Lucius outlaw

we constructed a reality that doesnt exist

ethnic groups exist because of people social attachment

focus on process of ethnic identification

people associate with others who are similar in terms of language. culture, beliefs, and appearance

practices that deny labours to cheaper, more expliotable labour

racial and ethnic conflict is rooted in difference in price of labour