SOCL 2001 Lecture : Chap 11,12,14,16 Textbook Notes
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What is race: social construction of race is a far more common way of understanding racial categories, race is not biologically identi able. What is ethnicity: ethnicity is a term that describes shared culture the practice, values, and beliefs of a group, meaning changes over time just like the meaning of race. Multiple identities: basically you can be a quarter black, a quarter asian, a quarter white, and a quarter. Prejudice and racism: prejudice is not based on an experience its a prejudgment originating outside of actual experience, racism is a type of prejudice that is used to justify the belief that superior races exist. Culture of prejudice: culture of prejudice: the theory that prejudice is embedded in our culture. 11. 4 intergroup relationships: either tolerance or intolerance. Genocide: genocide: the deliberate annihilation of a targeted, subordinate group, the most toxic intergroup relationship, ex) hitler and the jews.
