Sociology 2179A/B Lecture Notes - Lecture 6: Indian Register, Indian Act, Infant Mortality
16 Apr 2016
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The social determinants of health: race, ethnicity, & sexual orientaion (chapter 3, pg 61-71) Describe social paterning of health and illness in the canadian populaion according to race/ethnicity. Understand social context and health outcomes of canada"s indigenous peoples. Biological approach: views racial taxonomies as meaningful classiicaions of geneic diferences between human populaion groups, assumes that genes determining race also determine the number and types of health problems an individual will have. Though race isn"t biologically real, the ways our society thinks about and responds to the idea of race mean that it becomes real in its consequences for health. Whiteness imbues privilege and advantages, and disadvantages accrue for those whole skin color is not white. Canada has a long history of discriminaion and racializaion. Colonizaion: the process of subjugaing and dispossessing indigenous peoples by foreign peoples who setle and build colonies on the lands of indigenous peoples.
