SOCI 1001 Lecture Notes - Lecture 4: White Privilege, Microaggression Theory, Foreign Worker
5 Dec 2015
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How societies work: class, power, and change (5th ed) by joanne naiman. Race: a category of people who share certain physical features and genetic similarities deemed to be significant by society. Racialization: the social and political process whereby perceived physical differences of particular groups of people are socially constructed as a racial category. Racism: a set of beliefs that uses physical factors to explain and justify social, political, and economic inequalities between racial groups. Xenophobia: the generalized fear of cultures that aren"t your own. Prejudice: a negative judgment about a group of people that is applied to anyone who belongs to that group (or is categorized into that group by others) Stereotypes: generalizations about people who belong to a certain category. Humans like to categorize and order things so they become knowable. Any false perceptions projected onto races is referred to as a stereotype.
