SOC100H5 Chapter Notes - Chapter 7-13: Hostile Work Environment, Nuclear Family, Total Fertility Rate
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Prejudice an attitude that judges a person on his or her group"s real or imagined characteristics. Discrimination unfair treatment of people because of their group membership. Race a social construct used to distinguish people in terms of one or more physical markers, usually with profound effects on their lives. Scapegoat a disadvantaged person or category of people whom others blame for their own problems. Race is to biology as ethnicity is to culture. Ethnic culture comprises people whose perceived cultural markers are deemed socially significant. Ethnic groups differ from one another in terms of language, religion, customs, values, ancestors, and the like. Vertical mosaic a highly ethnically and racially stratified society. Symbolic ethnicity a nostalgic allegiance to the culture of the immigrant generation, or that of the old country, that is not usually incorporated in everyday behaviour. Racism the belief that a visible characteristic of a group, such as skin colour, indicates group inferiority and justifies discrimination.
