Social Exclusion & Race Flashcards
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Relationship between Race and Health
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- life expectancy of both sexes is higher for white vs all other races and black
- “Naturalizing” social differences and reproducing racist assumptions
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What is Race?
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- a social and political construct that is used to distinguish between and rank different groups of people on the basis of physical characteristic (such as skin colour)
- social category that captures differential access to power and resources in a society
- distinct from “ethnic group”
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Biology and Race
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- no biological basis
- repeated observation of systematic differences in health between radicalized groups
- genetic variation doesn’t correspond to differences in ‘race’
- “individuals from different populations can be genetically more similar than individuals from the same population” (Witherspoon et al. 2007)
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What is Racism?
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- a set of false beliefs and practices that asserts the natural superiority of one group over another based on biological differences
- ideology of inferiority that categorizes, ranks, and differentially allocates societal resources to socially defined “races”
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Structural Racism
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operates at an institutional level and involves processes and policies that favour dominant
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Radicalization is…
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the social and political processes through which hierarchies based on ‘race’ are constructed and reinforced
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“Race” to Racism
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- Shift the focus from the view that race is a characteristic of individual and towards the idea that race is a social product
- social construction= material effects
- racialized groups are treated as inferior by the culturally dominant group
- needs to be accounted for in policy (effects health and housing inequities)
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Race as an SDoH
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- social exclusion
- inequitable distribution of opportunities and resources (e.g. housing, jobs, education, income, safe neighbourhoods), as well as risk (incarceration, violence, discrimination)
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Social Exclusion is…
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- inequality among groups in society
- structure access to critical resources that determine the quality of membership in society and ultimately produce and reproduce a complex of unequal outcomes
- difference is used to justify exclusion
- some people are treated with less dignity
- patterns of inequality and oppression create division and resentment fed by injustice and suffering
- effects life in communities, workplaces, schools and other social institutions
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Aspects of Social inclusion (4 subgroups)
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- Exclusion from civil society (through legal sanction or other institutional mechanisms)
- Failure to provide for the needs of particular groups
- Exclusion from social production
- Economic exclusion from social consumptions
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- Exclusion from civil society (through legal sanction or other institutional mechanisms)
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- Disconnection from civil society and political participation
- Systemic forms of discrimination based on race, ethnicity, gender, disability, sexual orientation or religion
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- Failure to provide for the needs of particular groups
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- Denial of social goods such as accommodations, income, security, language services
- Denial of sanctions to deter or counter discrimination
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- Exclusion from social production
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-Denial of opportunities to contribute to or to participate actively in society’s social and cultural activities as full citizens
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- Economic exclusion from social consumptions
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-Exclusion of consumption
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What is privilege?
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- “invisible backpack” of tools that makes it easier to move through life
- “As a white person, I realized that I had been taught about racism as something that puts others at a disadvantage, but had been taught not to see one of it corollary aspects, white privilege, which puts me at an advantage.” (McIntosh)
