AN101 Lecture Notes - Lecture 12: Affirmative Action, Morton Fried, Ascribed Status
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Race and racialism examples: usa, brazil, nicaragua, mexico colorism, shadism. Based on evaluations, judgments, imagined communities, boundaries, exclusions and inclusions. Some are the result of colonialism, capitalism, slavery, the creation of 1st, 2nd, 3rd and 4th worlds. Global independence means the prosperity of some depend on the poverty of others. All are social and cultural constructions" (not biology or nature) The deliberate representation of particular identities as if they were a result of biology or nature rather than history or culture, making them appear eternal and unchanging. Examples: shared bodily substance; blood, genes or gender as natural" category. Social inequality: differential access to valued resources (wealth, prestige, power etc. ) Stratified societies: based on permanent hierarchy, differential privileges (as above) One in which members of the same sex or equivalent age statues do not have equal access to the basic resources that sustain life (morton fried 1967:186)
