Sociology 1020 Lecture Notes - Lecture 17: Ethnic Group, Racial Profiling, Top Priority
22 Apr 2017
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Color & ethnicity: a person"s skin color, or last name has no real consequence on one"s social behavior, physical characteristics have no consequence upon social behavior, until they become. Race: a category composed of people who share biologically transmitted traits that members of a society deem socially important. Ethnicity: a shared cultural heritage, ethnic group: cultural unit based on 4 factors. If one is the norm, one does not have to know what one is. If one is marginal, one does not have the privilege of not noticing what one is. marilyn frye the politics of reality . Vertical mosaic : ethnically stratified with certain ethnic groups dominating other ethnic groups. Power: the ability to exercise control over the productive resources of a country including the production of ideas. Minority identity: subjective identity is the personal involvement and attachment to a minority, objective identity is the labeling of persons into minorities despite their personal lack of attachment, bogardus scale.
