Sociology of Sports Chapter 9

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Define race
A population of people who are believed to be naturally or biologically distinct from other populations
When does race exhist
Only when people use a classification system that divides all human beings into distinct categories
Define ethnicity
A cultural heritage that people use to identify a particular population
Is ethnicity based on genetics or biology
No
What is ethnicity based on
Cultural traditions and history
Define ethnic population
A category of people regarded as socially distinct because they share a way of life, collective history, and sense of themselves as a people
Define minority
Socially identified population that suffers disadvantages due to systematic discrimination and has a strong sense of social togetherness based on shared experiences of past and current discrimination
Who developed a classification system to distinguish populations they encountered
Europeans
How did Euroopeans use the word race
Very loosely to refer to people with particular religous beliefs, languages or ethnic traditions, histories, national origins, and social statuses
Faulty scientific analyses w/ observations and anecdotal stories led to the development of what
Racial ideologies
Define racial ideology
A web of ideas and beliefs that people use to give meaning to skin color and evaluate people in terms of racial classifications
What assumption were the racial classification models developed in Europe based on
That the appearence/actions of white Europeans was normal and all deviations were strange, exotic, primitive, or immoral
What were the 3 reasons the racial ideology about colored people became popular in the eightenth and ninetenth centuries
- used during westward expansion to justify killing, capturing, and confining indians to reservations
- after abolition of slavery, used to justify new laws restricting negroes and enforcing racial segregation in public places (Jim Crow Laws)
- scientists at prestigous universities published research on superiority of whites and natural inferiority of blacks