SY101 Lecture Notes - Lecture 14: University Of California, Santa Cruz, Institutional Racism, Societal Racism

• School: WLU
• Department: Sociology
• Course: SY101
• Professor: Greg Bird

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Lecture 14: race & ethnicity i: sociological vs. commonsense notions of (cid:498)race(cid:499, racial formation theory. Commonsense: different associations used to connect individual characteristics, behaviours, tastes, and attitudes to a persons perceived membership of a group, often on the basis of physical appearance. Sociological: a social construction that divides humans into different & unequal categories on the basis of social, economic, and political forces. Eugenics : socio-biological sciences predicated on racist ideologies that promote: e. g. biological determinism: )dea that people"s dispositions, attitudes, practices that are supposed to (cid:498)purify(cid:499) and (cid:498)improve(cid:499) the genetic pool of a. 1. racialization: (cid:498)a dialectical process by which meaning is attributed to particular to a general category of persons which reproduces itself biologically(cid:499) (cid:523)robert miles, particular population. (practiced in animal breeding process) Alternative notions used biological features of human beings, as a result of which individuals may be assigned.