Geography 2410A/B Chapter Notes - Chapter 5: Social Capital, Welfare Dependency, Arson
3 Feb 2017
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Race: a controversial marker of human difference, usually based on biological distinctions or physical criteria such as skin colour and colour of hair. Ethnicity: relates to the culture and lifestyle of a particular group linked by birth, which marks them out as being different from others. Racism: the practice of ascribing particular (usually negative) attributes to a racial group who are erroneously believed to be biologically distinct: judgements of social worth are linked with presumed biological indicators. The formation of racism at the international scale. Historical events have shaped contemporary social relations between different groups, and these have been reinforced by the processes of industrial capitalism and the global division of labour. Segregation, and the ghetto as an ethnic stereotype. Segregation refers to the tendency for minority groups to be unevenly distributed in terms of where they live. The question of scale is of considerable significance in defining what segregation really means and how it may be measured.
