SOCA03Y3 Lecture Notes - Lecture 10: Fallacy, Derald Wing Sue, Content Analysis
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Distinct from the majority that controls the social system. Prejudice: thoughts about a different group that is negative. Discrimination: acting on the beliefs and treating them differently. Prejudiced non-discriminatory: prejudiced person who does not discriminate. Non-prejudiced non-discriminator: non- prejudiced person who does not discriminates. Justifies treating people differently based on their racial category. Assumes one racial category is inherently superior (that of the group in control) Only 1/4 of 1% (. 0024) of genetic makeup is accounted by "race" Reification: treating something created by humans as "natural" Thomas theorem : what people believe to be real is real in its consequences. Over-representation of indigenous children in the foster system. Over 50% of indigenous children were in foster care. Scott wanted to get rid of the "indian problem" Students were forbidden from practicing culture and were abused and died. 1940"s the school"s were used as orphanages rather than schools placing them with non- indigenous families removing them from their culture and language.
