SOC 1101 Chapter Notes - Chapter 10: Skilled Worker, Security Certificate, Essentialism

• School: University of Ottawa
• Department: Sociology
• Course: SOC 1101
• Professor: Sam Alvaro

Document Summary

Ethnicity is seen as apple light replacement for race a way to avoid using a term that is associated with racism and racial inequality. He believed that it is physical makeup alone that determines an individual"s race. It presumes that an individual identity depends on fundamentals and innate characteristics that are deep-seated, inherited and unchangeable. These traits are thought to be part of people"s essence. Racial and ethnic labels race is anchored in color ( example terms like black and white) that denote vast, continental groupings that include millions if not billions of people where you going. Black might refer to people from subs-saharan africa, or the caribbean or australia: white to the native of europe, red yellow and brown refer to similarity large-scale groups: indigenous peoples of the. America, asians and hispanics ethnic groups tend to be much smaller in size and associated with local national or.