APA 1302 Lecture 10: Lecture 10 - Sociology

• School: University of Ottawa
• Department: Human Kinetics
• Course: APA 1302
• Professor: Michael Robidoux

Document Summary

Multicultural canada: canada proclaims to be a multicultural nation supporting the freedom and right of minority peoples, cultural pluralism . vs. You need to assimilate to a certain extent, even if you are a tourist. Society is structured on the basis of european white eperiences. Sport and leisure is often been studied in canada as either assimilatory or in resistance to the white stream. Prior to thinking about these important question about the intersection of race/ethnicity it"s important to understand what each means. Race s a construct, based on the fact that it is to a certain extent a category. Race refers to a category of people regarded as socially distinct because they share genetic traits believed to be important by people with power and in uence in society. An ethnic group is a categoryoy of people regarded as socially distinct because they share a way of life and a commitment to the ideas, norms, and material things .