1. Homework social movement? which theory best explains it?
Deprivation theory
Fighting for rights/goods
Mass society theory
Outcasts finding a way to belong/have power
Social concern theory
Preserving some aspect of society
Structural strain theory
Some problem in society that people feel the need to change

2. Society, Culture, and Discrimination
HSP3M

3. Society
A group of people in a particular geographic area who share the same rules and laws

4. Culture
A set of ideas, beliefs, and behaviours that is handed down from one generation to the next

5. Society and Culture
A society may be made up of many different cultures
Immigrants bring their culture with them when they come to a new society

6. Social Institutions
Societies meet the needs of their inhabitants through social institutions
See handout
Use text page 219

7. Cultures within a society
There are basically 3 ways that different cultures can exist within a society
Segregation
Assimilation
Multiculturalism

8. Segregation
Minorities live, work, and go to school separately from the rest of society
Can be voluntary (Mennonites) or imposed (apartheid, internment, etc.)

9. The American South in the first half of the 20th century
In most places blacks and whites didn’t live in the same neighborhoods
Blacks were not allowed to go to school with whites
Many times, blacks were not allowed to try on clothing in department stores
In public areas such as restaurants, movie theatres, and museums, blacks and whites did not sit together.

11. Examples of institutionalized segregation
1914: Louisiana required separate entrances for blacks and whites.
1915: Oklahoma segregated telephone booths.
1920: Mississippi made it a crime to advocate or publish “arguments or suggestions in favor of social equalities or of interracial between whites and Negroes”.
Arkansas had segregation at racetracks.
Texas prohibited integrated boxing matches.
Kentucky required separate schools, and also that no textbook would be issued to a black would ever be reissued or redistributed, they also prohibited interracial marriage.
New Orleans created segregated red light districts for white and blacks prostitutes.

12. Assimilation
A policy that encourages or forces minority culture to adopt the ways of the dominant society
Example: Natives in Canada

13. Native Assimilation Residential schools
First Nations children forcibly taken from their families and placed in boarding schools far from home
Forbidden to speak native language or practice religious beliefs (forced to learn English, become Christian)
In all, about 150,000 aboriginal, Inuit and Métis children were removed from their communities and forced to attend the schools

14. Multiculturalism
Different cultures are encouraged to retain their distinct characteristics, ideas, and beliefs
Pros:
New ideas, richer diversity (think food, music)
Greater tolerance
Cons:
Weakened national identity?
Isolates newcomers from the rest of society?
Conflict for children torn between two cultures

15. Homework
Apartheid article