SOCI 1001 Lecture Notes - Lecture 4: White Privilege, Racialization, Asian Canadians
7 Feb 2018
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Social identity is situated at the intersection of self and social structure. Social identity refers to who you are and how you understand yourself. Visible minorities - any non caucasian in race or non - white colour, expect aboriginals. Race: super cial physical differences that a particular society considers signi cant. Refers to socially structured ideas about a certain group. Ethnicity: describes shared culture - practices, values and beliefs of a group. Minority groups: groups that are subordinate, or lacking power in society regardless of skin colour (objects of collective discrimination) Racialization: a social process that marks radicalized people for unequal treatment based on perceived physiological differences. Not just a process that marks people of colour yet also white people. Historically, westernized imperialism caused the ideology that white means civilized and non white means uncivilized. School is a site of racialization - christian holidays are seen as norms and other cultures are seen as deviant and needing commendations.
