SOC 100 Lecture Notes - Lecture 15: Social Inequality, Institutional Racism, Social Darwinism
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Sociology notes 15: an attitude that judges a person according to his/her groups real or imagined characteristics, discrimination, is unfair treatment of people because of their group membership. The concept of race: many historical efforts to explain race were biased due to ethnocentrism (the judge(cid:373)e(cid:374)t of other groups (cid:271)y o(cid:374)e"s o(cid:449)(cid:374) sta(cid:374)dards a(cid:374)d (cid:448)alues. Social darwinism: another 19th century theory, was the notion that some groups or races evolved more than others and were better fit to survive and even rule other races. Iv: racism includes, both attitudes and behavior, racism, the belief that a visible characteristic of a group, such as skin color, indicates group inferiority/superiority and justifies discrimination. Institutional racism: institutional/structural/systematic racism, (cid:862)the (cid:272)olle(cid:272)ti(cid:448)e failure of a(cid:374) orga(cid:374)izatio(cid:374)/i(cid:374)stitutio(cid:374) to pro(cid:448)ide a(cid:374) appropriate and professional service to people. Cycle of racism certain group: physical markers distinguish groups and create social inequality , behavioral differences , perceptions of behavioral differences create stereotypes .
