ch.10 sect.1:race,ethnicity, and the social structure
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Race Racial categories, physical… 3 racial groups Caucasoids Mongoloids Negroids Difficult describing complexity of race “pure” Race—TRANSCRIPT
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Ch.10 Sect.1:Race,Ethnicity, and the Social Structure
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What you will know…
• Race• Ethnicity• Minority Groups
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Race • Racial categories, physical…
• 3 racial groups• Caucasoids• Mongoloids• Negroids• Difficult describing
complexity of race• “pure”• Race—
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Ethnicity• Ethnicity—• Ethnic group—• Based on national
origin, religion…• How can it survive?• Jews• Ethnicity and race refer
to 2 separate sets of characteristics
• Examples
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Minority Groups
• Those in power…• Language• Privileges• Minority group—• Nothing to do with
group size• Apartheid• 5 characteristics
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Ch.10 Sect.2: Patterns of Intergroup Relations
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What you will know…
• Discrimination and Prejudice• Sources of the discrimination and prejudice• Patterns of Minority Group Treatment
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Discrimination & Prejudice
• Minority status exists because…
• Discrimination—• Behaviors• Prejudice• attitudes
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Discrimination• Acts range from…• Lynching• Legal discrimination• Institutionalized disc.• Apartheid• US, women• African Americans• Separate-but-equal• Supreme Court laws
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Institutionalized Discrimination
• Over time, unequal access to resources…
• Discrimination becomes part of social structure…
• Occurs even when legal steps taken to end it
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Prejudice
• Stereotype—• People told often and
long enough…• Self-fulfilling prophecy• Serves as a justification
for discriminatory actions
• Racism—• Bigots and liberals, 4
kinds
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Sociological Explanations
• Focus on social environment
• Prejudices are embedded in the social norms
• People become prejudiced to maintain their group membership
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Psychological Explanations• Personality• Authoritarian
personality• They are strongly
conformist, great respect for authority,…
• Frustration and anger• Scapegoating • Why a scapegoat?
Physical features, language, dress, religion…
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Economic Explanations
• Competition for scarce resources• Chinese workers example• Open violence• Dominant group encourages competition for
resources among minority groups• In struggle for jobs, minority groups…
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Cultural Pluralism
• Cultural pluralism—• Switzerland example
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Assimilation
• Hold onto unique cultural features
• “melting pot”• Assimilation—• Bulgaria example
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Legal Protection
• Civil Rights Act of 1964• Voting Rights Act of
1965• Affirmative action• “reverse discrimination”
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Segregation
• Segregation—• De Jure• De Facto• Ghettos• Did segregation exist in
the US?
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Subjugation/Population Transfer
• Subjugation—• Slavery—• Apartheid
• Indirect Transfer• Direct Transfer• Examples
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Extermination
• Genocide• Anti-Semitism• Pogrom• Holocaust• How many died?• Other examples• Ethnic cleansing—• Serbia