SACR 1100 Study Guide - Final Guide: Totalitarianism, Hbos, Complete Control

• School: University of Windsor
• Department: Sociology, Anthropology and Criminology
• Course: SACR 1100
• Professor: Danielle Soulierre

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Lec vii social inequality: race & ethnicity. Race: a social construct used to distinguish people in terms of physical markers considered to be socially significant. Ethnicity: involves grouping people who share a common cultural, linguistic, or ancestral heritage. Minority group: any group of people who are especially disadvantaged in a given society. Racialization: the process through which societies create racial categories into which individuals are classified. Insufficient or disproportionately low representation typically concerned with minorities. Casting a white actor to play a character to as the entertainment is often referred in of colour whitewashing industry. Racism: refers to an ideology that maintains that one racial group is inherently superior to another. We are racist because we live in a society that makes distinctions based on race institutions. Systemic (or institutional) racism: involves practices supported by that unfairly distribute resources and opportunities based on race.