Race/Ethnicity Flashcards
Xenophobia
Fear of people being different from you
Eugenics
Movement to sterilize people
Make society better
Stereotyping
Occurs when we exaggerate oversimplified images of the characteristics of social categories
Darwin (race)
Suggested people possessed genetic material and we’re able to adjust to their environment (or not)
Prejudice
Unfavourable, generalized and rigid beliefs applied to all members of a group
Discrimination
Practices that deny groups equal access to societal rewards (action of doing)
Gregor Mendel (race)
His research revealed that biological traits were not passed on as package deals, but rather ore often shuffled like a pack of playing cards
We are not clones of our parents
Race (conclusion)
Race is not a meaningful biological category. Rather, this form of categorizing people should be understood as both a biological and social force
Race
Race is a social construction, an achieved status as much as it is an ascribed status because
1 racial classifications are arbitrary
2 genetic differences between groups are small
3 genetic differences are behaviourally insignificant
W.I Thomas theorem
“If people define situations as real,they are real in their consequences”
Toilet paper crisis
Institutional racism
Systematic
Intentional done by design
Jews
Voyage of the damned
Institutional racism
Systemic
Height and weight restrictions for some kinds of work
Cultural racism
Ideological - turbans for RCMP
Everyday - textbook
Why do racial crimes occur?
Biological
Ethnic grouping is “natural”/encoded in our genes
Discrimination, prejudice and ethnocentrism are natural and inevitable behaviours
These features of society will likely continue because we cannot eradicate our nature
Why do racial crimes occur
Problems
People will often hurt members of their own racial/ethnic group
People of different groups will often work together in anti racist campaigns
Race
Rushton and race science
According to Rushton there are 3 races Negroids, Caucasoids and Monogoloids. The latter have lower rates of crime are less aggressive and are more intelligent. Negroids have biological disposition towards crime and they are less intelligent. His research is flawed he uses the concept of race and treats it as unproblematic. He also does not account for differences in the ways that crime is measured in various nations
Reena Virk and Race
Was attacked and accused of trying to steal a girls boyfriend it was believed by many that her race or visible minority played a role in her death
Racial crime
Psychological
Frustration with your life leads to aggression
Hitler blames Jews
Marc Lepine blamed women
Racial crime
Normative / sociological
Prejudice and discrimination are passed down from generation to generation
Prejudice and discrimination are socialized into children
Normative theory
Normative theory suggests that people are exposed to group norms. Prejudice is thought of as a result of group socialization
Consequently, those exposed to prejudice will exhibit discriminatory behaviour
Prejudice and discrimination can be explained by
A) a persons definition of situations
B) reference group norms
Normative theory
Robert Merton
He suspected that most people are inculated with success norms but do not have the means to attain success. Thus they resort to blaming others - discriminating and then prejudice and stereotyping to rationalize their actions
John Porter
The Vertical Mosaic
Examined the class structure of Canadian society
Charter and entrance groups
Charter colonized the country and set up rules for others to follow
Merton and conflict
Conflict theorist such as Satzewich believe that struggle to accumulate wealth in capitalist societies is to blame for the poor
A Chinese head taxes
B Exclusionary rules
C Systemic discrimination
Racial Crimes
Split market theory (Edna Bonacich)
She said that there were three groups in society
A Business/capitalist
B Highly paid (white) labour
C Lower paid (non-white) labour
She said that the business class benefits from working class fighting. They perpetuate this conflict via discriminatory employment practices
