SOC100H5 Chapter Notes - Chapter 7: Institutional Racism, Symbolic Ethnicity, Ethnic Group
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Intelligence is not based on ethnicity or race. Social seings in which a person is raised and educated has a great impact on intelligence and success o. In most cases biology has minimal efect on intelligence. 1. nobody has ever ideniied gees linked to general athleic superiority. 2. black athletes do not perform unusually well in many sports such as swimming, hockey, tennis, soccer etc. Social condiions lead to high levels of paricipaion in sports. People facing widespread of prejudice and discriminaion enter professional sports in disproporionately large numbers for lack of way to improve social and economic standing. An aitude that judges a person on their group"s real or imagined characterisics. Unfair treatment of people because of their group membership idea of superiority based on ethnical geneics lead to inequality o. Black have superior geneic makeup for sports; as whites have superior geneic makeup for intelligence.
