Week 3 Flashcards
What is privilege
the process that confer privilege to one group and not another are often invisible to those upon whom that privileged is conferred. Invisibility is a luxury.
What are types of racism
racial profiling
racial slurs
hate crimes
back handed compliments
institutionalzied racism
systemic racism
What is reification
processes in which abstract concepts become real
making something that isnt real. e.g., race.
Why abandon concept of race?
race is a social construciton
racism is real in its consequences.
Why keep concept of race
race is real in its consequences, should be abandonded as a cateoory of sociological analysis
What is ethnicity to weber?
socially constructed because beliefs about group differences serve to exclude individuals from certain associations while including them in others
What to Allahar and Cote say on In group/ourgroup dynamics
ethnic group identififcation and membership involve both subjective and objective assessments about whether the following characteristics apply to an indvidual or group.
What do marxists accounts of social inequality examine?
the role that race and ethnicity play in maintaining class boundaries.
What is an example of capitalism taking advtange of race?
during the 30s and 40s with the sitdown strikes in plants, they just decided to hire black people for lower wages since the white people were on strike.
they brought in the black people and payed them less for the same amount of work.
What is racial formation
a sociohistorical process by which racial categories are created, inhabited, transformed and destroyed.
people referring to eachtoher as races.
What is hegemony
the dominance of one group over another
expresses the idea that dominance is achieved and mainted through both ideological and coercive processes
basically making people accept that the system is the way it is and that trying to challenge those at the top wont get them far through threats coercion or other ways like making people fear job loss and etc.
What are racial projects
processes through which human bodies and social structures are represented and organized.
racial project e.g., collecting stats on police shootings by race.
according to bonilla and silva what structures everything?
race
What is racial contestation
the struggle of racial groups for systematic changes regarding their position at one or more levels where level refer to economic, social, political and ideological domains.
Racism in everyday life
socialzied racist notions are intergrated into meanings that make prctices immdediately definable and manageable
practices with racist implications become themselves familiar and repetitive
underlying racial and ethnic relations are actualized and reinforced through these routine or familiar practices in everyday situations
