Sociology 1020 Chapter Notes - Chapter 10: Regional Geography, Canadian Security Intelligence Service, Social Forces
10 Dec 2017
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Key distinctions between race and ethnicity: racial categories tend to be imposed on individuals or groups by others, while ethnic labels are more likely to be chosen for themselves by the individuals or groups concerned, racialized. Race and society: socially created: not the work of a single individual but rather the product of masses of people who form a society. Race and biology: socialization: having been trained to pick out particular bodily characteristics and then associate them with particular groups, patterns in dna reveal the existence of human racial groups. Race and place: ra(cid:272)e (cid:272)o(cid:374)(cid:272)ept: people"s (cid:271)eliefs a(cid:271)out ra(cid:272)e, i(cid:374)(cid:272)ludi(cid:374)g their (cid:374)otio(cid:374)s of (cid:449)hi(cid:272)h groups are ra(cid:272)es and who belongs to which race. American south: genocide: deliberate and systematic killing of a category of people. Individual discrimination: action carried out by an individual or small group that harms one or more individuals based on their group membership.
