Sociology 1021E Lecture Notes - Lecture 10: Affirmative Action, Institutional Racism, Critical Race Theory
24 May 2017
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Prejudice: an attitude that judges a person on his or her group"s real or imagined characteristics. Discrimination: unfair treatment of people because of their group membership. Scapegoat: a disadvantaged person or category of people whom others blame for their own problems: once colonialism, slavery and concentration camps were established, behavioral differences developed between subordinates and superordinate. Ethnic group: comprises people whose perceived cultural markers are deemed socially significant. Ethnic groups differ from one another in terms of language, religion, customs, values, ancestors, and the like. Multiculturalism: policy emphasizes tolerance of ethnic and racial differences. Symbolic interactionists argue that the development of racial and ethnic labels, and ethnic and racial identities, is typically a process of negotiation. Members of a group many have racial or an ethnic identity, but outsiders may impose a new label on them. Group members then reject, accept, or modify a label.
