SOCI 205 Lecture Notes - Lecture 2: Scientific Racism, Planned Destruction Of Warsaw, Institutional Racism
13 Mar 2017
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Chapter 10: ethnicity cultural values and norms that distinguish the members of a given group from others. Prejudice may be either positive or negative: discrimination behavior that denies to the members of a particular group resource or rewards that can be obtained by others. Also known as ethnic minority: dominant group the opposite of a minority group; dominant group possesses more wealth, power, and prestige in a society. Chapter 12: religion a set of beliefs adhered to by the members of a community, incorporating symbols regarded with a sense of awe or wonder together with ritual practices. Religions do not universally involve a belief in supernatural entities: theism a belief in one or more supernatural deities, alienation the sense that our own abilities as human beings are taken over by other entities. The term was originally used by karl marx to refer to the projection of human powers onto gods.
