race soc

viewing differences amoung groups in society that causes members of one group to view other groups as strangers

• stranger phenomenon
• groups towards which individuals feel loyalty or closeness

• stranger phenomenon
• those groups toward which they feel anatgonisms

classification of others on the basis of limited information

understanding human behavior by placing it in its border social context

a social condition in which privileges and obligations are given to some but denied to others

• resistance
• paralysis
• rage

• society as a whole is made up of interrelated parts that work together
• robert merton
• functions- manifest and latent
• dysfunctions

• society composed of groups cometing for scarce resources
• social sturcture is best understood in terms of conlifct or tensions between competing groups

how people use symbols in everyday life

remains unclear in everyones mind

definition of the situation

is social group that controls the political economic and cultural institutions in a society

a social group that lacks control of the political economic and cultural institutions in society

• unequal treatment and less power
• distinguishing physical or cultrual triats that the dominat group holds in low regard
• involuntary membership or ascribed status
• group solidairy- awarness of oppression
• arital endogamy- in group marriage

view of things in which ones own group is the center of everything

evaluating beliefs in the context of that culture

an erroneous way of comparing people from one time period with people living in the present

• the tendency of individuals to think and feel in negative ways about members of other groups
• ethnophaulism

actual overt individual behavior

• genocide
• expulsion
• segregation
• exclusion
• selective inclusion

individual

institutional and structural

• all weather liberal
• fair weathered liberal
• timid bigot
• all weather bigot

asserts that races are distint and separte for bilogical and genetic reasons

• yes!
• race is symbolic category based on pehnotype or ancestry and constructed based on social and historical context

• non hispnaic whites
• hispanics
• american indians
• non hispanic blacks
• asian

• a shared lifestyle informed by cultural historical religious and or national affiliations
• fluid

membership in a specific politically delineated territory controlled by a government

• individualistic
• legalistic
• tokenistic
• ahistorical
• faxed

racism is assumed to belong to the relam of ideas and prejudices

assumes that bloshing racist laws effectively abolished racism

assumes the presence of people of color in influential positions is evidence that racism no longer exist

assumes racism is faxed and constant across time and space

political social and economic power as well as the symbolic power to clasify one group as normal and the other as abnomal

racial domination intersects with gender class sexuality relgion nation overlapping system of advnatages and disadvantages

the belief that humans are subdividde into distinct hereditary groups that are innately different in thoer socila behvior and mental capacities and can be ranked

• humans are dvidved naturally inyo different physical types
• physical triats people display are related to thier culture, personality and intelligence
• the difference amoung groups are innate - not changing

systemic white domination of people of color embedded and operating in universityes corporations ect

racial domination manifest in our dispositions interactions and practices

rest on the notion that the discrepancies in social achievement among ethnic groups are the result of cultural differences

the process of people of color unknowlingly accepting and supporting the terms of thier own domination

• reflexivity
• relationality
• reconstruction