SOC102H1 Lecture Notes - Lecture 5: Ethnic Group, Racialization, Socalled
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Migrations and diasporas: people flowing all around the world. Diaspora: the movement, migration, or scattering of people outside. Result of immigrant communities -> ethnic and racial diversity in. Horizontal and vertical inequalities that arise between ethnic communities. Racial and ethnic identities have proved more resistant to change than early sociologists had ever imagined. Marx expected class identities to replace ethnic identities, especially in the minds of class-conscious workers. This would also surprised emile durkheim and max weber. Social differentiation: practice of identifying different kinds of people. A transformation of natural differences into socially important differences and inequalities important differences and inequalities. To maintain differences, people perform acts of distinctive race and ethnicity. Race: genetic differences that produce perceived differences in appearance. Ethnicity: social and cultural characteristics people are believed to share. High rates of immigration support the survival of ethnic and racial groups.
