SOC 507 Lecture Notes - Lecture 2: White Supremacy, Brian Mulroney, Credentialism And Educational Inflation
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Race" vs. ethnicity ethnicity refers to group identities based on common culture, including shared language, homeland, history, religion, clothing, music, food, etc. Race" refers to group identities based on supposed common inherited physical traits, including skin colour, shape of facial features (eyes, noses, etc. ), hair, etc. the two concepts are often conflated (treated as the same) Involves: macro level processes institutional politics, culture, ideology, micro-level processes in everyday experience interactions, interpretations, practices. State formation is the process of the development of a centralized government structure in a situation where one did not exist prior to its development, or strengthening one that is already there. Nation-building refers to the process of constructing or structuring a national identity using the power of the state. 1880s: brutal/dangerous work and inadequate food & housing on cpr construction immigration for men only, wives & children prohibited sexual regulation of the yellow menace". 1907 restriction of fishing licenses in 1920s internment and forced relocation of.