SOC101Y1 Chapter Notes - Chapter 6-8: Gender Inequality Index, Occupational Inequality, Gender Role
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Stereotypes disproportionate number of negative treats over generalizations about the appearance, behaviour, or other characteristics of members of particular groups media are major sources of racial and ethnic stereotypes. 3. institutional practices based on explicitly racist ideas institutional practices that arose from but no longer sustained by racist ides institutional practices that sometimes unintentionally exclude certain groups through seemingly neutral rules, regulations, procedure. Functionalist perspectives: functionalists: macrolevel intergroup processes that occur among members of majority and minority. Process by which members of subordinate racial and ethnic grouse become absorbed into the dominant groups in society culture. Cultural assimilation, acculturation occurs when members of an ethnic group adopt dominant group traits, such as language, dress, values, religion, and food preferences. Structural assimilation, integration: occurs when members of subordinate racial or ethnic groups gain acceptance in everyday social interaction w/ members of dominant group. Biological assimilation, amalgamation: occurs when members of one group marry those of other social, ethnic groups individual.
