SOCIOL 1A06 Study Guide - Quiz Guide: Institutional Racism, Peggy Mcintosh, Occupational Inequality

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How life opportunities are offered based on race and ethnicity. Looking at discrimination, systemic discrimination achieved statuses or socially constructed or a biological myth. Using racial typologies to make conclusions on white vs. black vs. asians until the past. 50 years brought about the scientific validity of this was called into question. Generalizations about race is actually not sound or scientifically accurate at all: objective definitions of ethnicity: ethnicity as fixed and static vs. subjective approaches: ethnic. Quiz 4 notes identity as variable and flexible: self defined by the person or fluid, Henry & tator racism in the canadian university. Increasingly organized on the basis of race and ethnicity in the time between high school and university: the experience of visible minority university students. Ethnic nationalists based on geography some argue it shouldn"t be based on geological location, should be based on background (ethnic.