SOCI 120 Lecture Notes - Lecture 21: Melting Pot, Institutional Racism, Racialization
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Ethnicity- cultural values and norms that distinguish the members of a given group from others. Race- differences in human physical characteristics used to categorize large numbers of individuals. Racial literacy- the skills taught to children of multiracial families to help them cope with racial hierarchies and to integrate multiple ethnic identities. Racialization- the process by which understandings of race are used to classify individuals or groups of people. Minority groups- a group of people in a given society whom because of their distinct physical or cultural characteristics, find themselves in situations of inequality compared with the dominant group within that society. Racism- the attribution of characteristics of superiority or inferiority to a population sharing certain physically inherited characteristics. Institutional racism- patterns of discrimination based on ethnicity that have become structured into existing social instituitons. Prejudice- the holding of preconceived ideas about an individual or group.
