SOC100H5 Chapter Notes - Chapter 7: Institutional Racism, Symbolic Ethnicity, Ethnic Group
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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. Race: a social construct used to distinguish people in terms of one or more physical markers, usually with profound effects on their lives. Scapegoat: a disadvantaged person or category of people whom others blame for their own problems. Ethnic group: comprises people whose perceived cultural markers are deemed socially significant. Ethnic groups differ from one another in terms of language, religion, customs, values, ancestors, and the like. Vertical mosaic: a highly ethnically and racially stratified society. Symbolic ethnicity: a nostalgic allegiance to the culture of the immigrant generation, or that of the old country, that is not usually incorporated in everyday behavior. Racism: the belief that a visible characteristic of a group, such as skin colour, indicates group inferiority and justifies discrimination.
