SOCIOL 1A06 Lecture 8: Ethnicity and Racism - december 3
20 Apr 2016
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How useful is the category of race in telling us about a person"s social. Experiences and culture? one racial group - contains many different ethnicities one ethnic group - can contain different racial groups ethnicity is more useful than race. In what context should we talk about race? critically - by analyzing the sources of racism, the forces that sustain it, and the functions it serves (who benefits from it) Prejudice & discrimination prejudice: a rigid and unfair generalization about an entire category of people bias stereotype: a fixed and over-simplified description applied to every person in some category discrimination: unequal treatment of categories of people. The ultimate goal of othering is to exclude from material, symbolic, emotional or other types of rewards/resources done through dehumanizing one side of the binary. Types of racism macro to micro systematic cultural institutional individual.
