SOCI 200 Lecture Notes - Ethnocentrism, Social Darwinism
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Race and ethnicity is the aspect of inequality that we have been working on the most. Race: a group who share biological features that members of a society deem socially significant. The most salient feature of race that we identify is skin colour. The features that we choose are chosen as social determinants. Ex. we decide that hair colour doesn"t matter but skin colour does. Race and ethnicity go hand in hand because there is a relationship between how we look and our cultural background. Problem is that we see our ethnicity as fixed. Ethnicity and culture is always linked to our race and how we look fail to see is that where were from, culture, beliefs is based on how we are brought up. Allow for limit to access of resources based on race. Ethnocentrism look at the world based on my ethnic background. Ethnocentrism usually talked about in a negative light.
