Hsci 340 Week 6

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What is Ethnicity?

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Ethnicity refers to a shared lifestyle informed by cultural, historical,religious, and/or national affiliations.

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What is Nationality?

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Nationality is equated with citizenship, membership in a specific politicallydelineated territory controlled by a government.• Race, ethnicity, and nationality are overlapping sym

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What are the visible minorities?

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The Employment Equity Act defines as visible minorities “persons, otherthan Aboriginal persons, who are non-Caucasian in race or non-white incolour.”

• The visible minority population in Canada is understood to consist of mainlyof the following groups: South Asian, Chinese, Black, Filipino, LatinAmerican, Arab, Southeast Asian, West Asian, Korean and Japanese

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What is acculturation?

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The process by which newcomers to a country take on the values andbehaviors of their host country

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A core criticism of acculturationas the central concept is?

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• the social and historical contexts of migration

• the racialization of immigrants, and

• the role these factors play in the differential social integration of immigrants.

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Health Immigrant Effect?

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Refers to the finding that newly arrived immigrants appear to havea health advantage but after a period of time their health statustends to converge toward that of the host population.

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What is structural racism, and why doesit influence health?

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Institutional racism or systemic racism describes forms of racism which are structured into political and social institutions. It occurs when organisations, institutions or governments discriminate, either deliberately or indirectly, against certain groups of people to limit their rights.

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What is Material Culture?

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• The physical evidence of a culture in theobjects and architecture

• All material evidence which can be attributed toculture, past or present.

• Anything from buildings to books, jewelry,pottery, or toothbrushes can be consideredmaterial culture

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What is Non Material Culture?

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• Consists of the ideas, attitudes, and beliefs of asociety.

• Material and nonmaterial aspects of culture arelinked – material objects often symbolizecultural ideas, attitudes, and beliefs

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What is Cultural Universals?

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• Cultural universals are patterns or traits that areglobally common to all societies

• They revolve around basic human survival,such as finding food, clothing, and shelter, oraround shared human experiences, such asbirth and death, or illness and healing.

• Cultural universals include, for example,language, the concept of personal names,family units, music, humor.

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What are Values?

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Social agreements for discerning what is good andjust in society. Values are deeply embedded andcritical for transmitting and teaching a culture’sbeliefs

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What are Beliefs?

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Definitions or explanations about what is assumed tobe true. Individuals or groups in a society havespecific beliefs, but they also share collective values.

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What are Norms?

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Socially defined rules of behavior. Norms serve asguidelines for personal behavior and for ourexpectations of the behaviors of others. Norms canbe formal or informal

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What are Folkways?

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Direct appropriate behavior in the day-to-day customsand manners of a cultural group or society.

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Laws, vs Mores, vs Sanctions

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LawsFormalized norms backed by political and legalauthority.

MoresNorms that have a moral basis. Violation of moresmay produce shock, horror, and moral indignation.

SanctionsAll norms are associated with sanctions: socialconsequences for conforming to or violating norms

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3 types of Culture?

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High-culture, Popular Culture, Subculture + Counter culture