SOCI 1010 1nd Edition Lecture 5 Outline of Last Lecture I. The House We Live In Video a. Race being socially constructedb. Illusionary but RealII. Optional v. Symbolic EthnicityOutline of Current Lecture I. Benefits v. Drawbacks of having a symbolic ethnicityII. The Big IdeaIII. Terms/DefinitionsIV. Dominant Privilege Current LectureI. Benefits v. Drawbacks of having a symbolic ethnicitya. Benefits for the individual: i. Gives a sense of connection/communityii. Sets you apart from “regular” Americans (makes you unique)b. Drawbacks for the individual:i. If your ethnicity doesn’t affect your life on a daily basis, you may think everyone else feels the same way (may not be the case for all ethnic or racial categorizations)ii. You may not recognize that some groups may have a different struggle II. The Big Idea:a. While racial and ethnic categories are socially constructed, they can still shape our interactions and experiences. III. Terms/Definitions:These notes represent a detailed interpretation of the professor’s lecture. GradeBuddy is best used as a supplement to your own notes, not as a substitute.a. Categories other than race and ethnicity:i. Minority Group v. Dominant Group1. Minority: a category of people, distinguished by physical or cultural trains, who are socially disadvantaged2. Dominant: racial or ethnic category that is socially advantaged3. These two things have NOTHING to do with numerical advantage4. One is part of the dominant group if they don’t experience the disadvantage ii. Prejudice v. Discrimination1. Prejudice: a rigid and irrational generalization about an entire category of peoplea. Ex. All white people like meatloaf2. Discrimination: treat people differently due to the category in which they belonga. Only serving white people meatloaf 3. Prejudice is the IDEA whereas Discrimination is the ACTIONiii. Racism: belief that a category of people in innately superior or inferior to another. 1. Global understanding that certain categories are superior or inferioriv. Individual discrimination v. Institutionalized discrimination:1. Individual discrimination: the differential treatment of one person by another person.a. Ex. A person saying a racial slur, a person not hiring someone based on their race2. Institutionalized discrimination: when discrimination permeates some institution or pattern of society. a. Built into the way something worksi. Ex. Separate but equal schooling1. There wasn’t one person being discriminative to another person, but the system in which students were assigned to schools was considered discriminationIV. Dominant Privilegea. Definition: advantages tied to category membership that are unearnedb. “White Privilege” readingi. Author discovered “white privilege” or dominant privilege by seeing her own experience as a women with male colleagues. ii. Describes dominant privilege as an “invisible backpack”iii. You automatically have a privilege (even if it is unconscious) in certain situations just because of your category
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