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