SOC102H1 Lecture Notes - Lecture 4: Labour Power, Gordon Allport, An American Dilemma
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Marx + weber doesn"t think that race and ethnic inequalities r that important. Genocides, wars, etc. occur becuz of race and ethnic conflicts. Problems with stereotypes it over simplifies reality. All blacks are bad or all blacks are good. Stereostypes is a form of over-generalization that makes bad predictions about how particular ppl will behave. We shudnt banish stereotypes but understand them. Melting pot it tries to assimilate everyone to a certain identity. America tries to make everyone an american cnda is opposite it promotes multiculturalism. A race of is a set of ppl with physical or genetic characteristics that are deemed to produce identifiable difference in appearance. Ethnic group is a set of people who consider themselves to share common characteristic that distinguish them from other groups in a society. Members of an ethnic group mainly share cultural characteristics ex: religion, occupation, language and politics.
