SOCI 1000 Chapter Notes - Chapter 11: Structural Inequality, Indigenous Rights, Intersectionality
11 Apr 2018
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Ethnicity: social distinctions and relations among individuals and groups based on their cultural characteristics. Race: peoples assumed but socially significant physical or genetic characteristic. It is important to remember this component of racism, and to avoid seeing racism as an individual characteristic or individually held belief. While it does occur at the individual level, the issue is far more pervasive, and infuses many of our ways of understanding and organizing the social. It is descriptive, that is, multiculturalism is a demographic reality. Canadian population is made up of people from many different cultures. It is also prescriptive meaning that it provides an ideal that canada is supposed to work toward, a pluralist ideal that embraces the notion that different groups can coexist together in a larger unity. Because it is prescriptive, it ends up being deeply connected to different government policies, practices, and programs and it also means that there can be struggle over political resources among minority groups.
