SOC263H5 Lecture Notes - Lecture 6: Visible Minority, Media Studies, Racialization
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Assignment evidence good enough for conclusion, common in mass media studies, asa, citations course material, not to cite lectures common knowledge. Nation states appears with elements of capitalism within feudalism, caused by the need for enlarged market invention of first cheques to reduce robbing. No ethnically homogeneous nation states, absolute ethnic distance. Stats canada does not record ethnicity, but language first learned at home and still understood and immigrant status; deduce ethnicity based on how you answer the question. Forcing to declare ethnicity you set in stone ethnic categories which can be used for discrimination self-fulfilling prophecies. Racialization: set of social processes and practices through which social relations among people are structured by the signification of human biological characteristics in such a way as to define and construct differentiated social collectivities (races) Behaviourally insignificant biological characteristics become socially significant in their consequences. Race depends in the dominate racial group, it is a social construct that changes overtime.
