SOCIOL 1A06 Chapter Notes - Chapter 9: Institutional Racism, Scapegoating
25 Jan 2017
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3 factors contribute in the high rate of victimization of indigenous women: The consumption of drugs, alcohol, or other intoxicants prior to the incident. According to humans rights watch the sexual and racial abuse of indigenous women at the hands of police are overlooked in the studies done. The sociology of ethnic and power relations concern primarily the study of how power and resources are unequally distributed among ethnic and racial groups. Terms such as: race, racial, ethnic and ethnicity are used in a variety of different ways in our lives. Sociologists believe it is more useful to see race and ethnicity as achieved statuses-statuses that are acquired by virtue of social definition. Racism: the belief that humans are subdivided into distinct hereditary groups that are innately different in their social behaviour and mental capacities and that can therefore be ranked as superior or inferior.
