SOCIOL 1A06 Lecture Notes - Lecture 10: Quebec Nationalism, Visible Minority, Institutional Racism
15 Mar 2016
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Sociological perspectives: focuses on inequality & power, social significance of categories of ethnicity & race, focus on discrimination, race & ethnicity as achieved status, race & ethnicity as coitally constructed, race as biological myth (since 1950s) Discrimination: prejudice hostility, discrimination unequal treatment/opportunity, negative behaviour (don"t hire b/c black) White privilege: unearned privilege that whites benefit from, concept developed by peggy macintosh (feminist, anti-racist scholar, activist, peggy video white women are oppressive she disagrees, think white women are nice. Made list of all this she got that her black friends didn"t: 2006 census 16. 5% define as visible minority, large minorities have higher proportions of visible minorities, 3 facing inequality , aboriginals. Lower family income, poverty, higher unemployment, health outcomes, remote areas with high pricing for food, crime, domestic violence, suicide, residential schools (taken from parents & prevented from practicing beliefs: black men. Persistent economic inequality, higher unemployment, higher incomes: recent immigrants. Did worse than earlier ways of immigrants.
