SOCI 210 Chapter Notes - Chapter 11: Canadian Indian Residential School System, Racial Steering, Intersection Theory

• School: McGill University
• Department: Sociology
• Course: SOCI 210
• Professor: Alexandre Miltsov

Document Summary

I. e. canada, immigration major influence on population diversity. Visible minorities: persons non-caucasian in race/non-white in colour (other than aboriginal) Settler society: society historically based on colonization through foreign settlement. Immigration based on non-racial point system, canada defined as multicultural nation. Race (superficial physical difference), ethnicity (shared culture), minority groups (subordinate, lack power i. e. elderly) meanings can change over time. Wirth defined minority group as one single out from others in society because of physical/cultural characteristics. Racialization: social construction of race, way of understanding racial categories. Occurs through social process of unequal treatment based of physiological differences. (1) unequal treatment and less power, (2) distinguishing trait such as skin color or language, (3) involuntary membership to group, (4) awareness of subordination, and (5) high rate of in-group marriage. Scapegoat theory: dominant group will displace unfocused aggression onto subordinate group (dollard) i. e. jews/hitler, eastern european immigrants in canada. Metis are canada"s original exception to low rate of inter-racial marriages.