Chapter 3 Learning Objectives

Race and Ethnic Relations

In this chapter, students should learn to do the following:

  1. Be able to distinguish the difference between “race” and “ethnicity.”
  2. Understand the factors that led to the implementation of the multicultural policy in Canada.
  3. Be able to distinguish between traditional multiculturalism and modern multiculturalism.
  4. Be able to understand the stratification of race and ethnicity in Canada via John Porter’s The Vertical Mosaic.
  5. Be able to outline the process of immigrant integration including institutional completeness.
  6. Be able to explain how the following theoretical perspectives view the role of race and ethnicity in society: structural functionalism, conflict theory, symbolic interactionism, feminist theory, and structural theory.
  7. Be able to distinguish among the different manifestations of prejudice, discrimination, and racism, including individual racism, internalized racism, institutional racism, and racialization.
  8. Understand how prejudice and discrimination can be studied through indirect measures, such as social distance.
  9. Be able to identify the social and health consequences of immigration.
  10. Identify the various solutions that can be offered at a larger governmental and organizational level to reduce prejudice and racism.
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