SOC100H5 Lecture Notes - Lecture 7: Ethnic Group, Social Inequality, The Negotiation
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Race and sports: people who face widespread prejudice and discrimination often enter sports in disproportionately large numbers of lack of other ways to improve their social and economic standing. For such people, other avenues if upward mobility tend to be blocked: prejudice: an attitude that judges a person on his or her group"s real or imagined characteristics, discrimination: unfair treatment of people because of their group membership. Resources and opportunities: what really matters in determining the economic success of an ethnic or racial group are the resources people possess, such as education, literacy, urbanity, and financial assets. John porter, one of the founders of modern canadian sociology, called mid-twentieth-century. Group members of a group then reject, accepts or modify the label. The negotiation between outsiders and insiders eventually results in the crystallization of a new, more or less stable ethic identity.
