SOCI 210 Lecture Notes - Lecture 15: Henri Tajfel, Haitian Americans, Multiracial

• School: McGill University
• Department: Sociology
• Course: SOCI 210
• Professor: Matthew Lange

Document Summary

We noted how canada is commonly stratified by race and ethnicity: contemporary vertical mosaic has visible minorities facing inequalities. Most sociological work on race and ethnicity focuses on stratification. Another focus deals with identification: the ways in which and extent to which we identify with ethnicity/race and are categorized by other according to ethnicity/race. What are you: a question that is contextually dependent and can have a variety of answer. Identity: our identities are made up of many factors. Community: among the most important elements of our identity are community memberships, family, neighbourhood, nation, race and ethnicity are also different types of communities. Though to find anyone without a communal identity. Seems to be in our genes, linked to survival: humans are sociable animals, and humans that cooperate were more likely to survive, strong in-group identity helped promotes survival. Out groups: at the sa(cid:373)e, shari(cid:374)g resour(cid:272)es (cid:449)ith people (cid:449)ho do(cid:374)"t re(cid:272)ipro(cid:272)ate hi(cid:374)ders sur(cid:448)i(cid:448)al, recognizing out groups limits this.