SOCI 100 Lecture Notes - Lecture 2: Thomas Theorem, Visible Minority, Multiple Choice

• School: UBC
• Department: Sociology
• Course: SOCI 100
• Professor: Catherine Corrigall- Brown

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Midterm: bolded words in textbook, reading sections, important theories, people mentioned in the notes and those mentioned multiple times in the textbook, multiple choice, filling the blanks, four short answer questions. Race vs ethnicity: race: social distinction based on physical and biological characteristics (eg. hair texture, ethnicity: social distinctions based on cultural characteristics (language, religion, costumes, shared history) Theories of race and ethnicity: essentialism, race and ethnicity are enduring characteristics of individuals, they are unchanging over time and an essential part of who we are. Cons of the theory: race and ethnicity are changing over time; costumes change overtime, (cid:498)one drop rule(cid:499) of us, president obama (mom is white and dad is black) Sociologists believe race and ethnicity are socially constructed: 99% of physiology is shared across humanity, difference of phenotype (observable characteristics) not associated with other differences, within-group variation is greater than between group variation.