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Understanding Race and Ethnicity Dynamics in Society

Explore the complexities of race, ethnicity, discrimination, and prejudice. Learn about minority group treatment and the social structures that shape intergroup relations in the United States. Unravel the historical and contemporary challenges faced by different minority groups.

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Understanding Race and Ethnicity Dynamics in Society

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  1. CHAPTER 10 RACIAL AND ETHNIC RELATIONS

  2. Section 1: Race, Ethnicity, and The Social Structure • One of the best known classification systems sort people into three racial groups: • Caucasoids: fair skin, straight or wavy hair • Mongoloids: yellowish or brownish skin, distinct folds on the eyelids • Negroids: dark skin, woolly hair • This classification system is no longer used because there are no biologically “pure” races.

  3. Race deals with physical characteristics • Ethnicity deals with cultural characteristics

  4. Five characteristics that distinguish minority groups from other groups in society : • Identifiable physical characteristics that differ from the dominate group • Victims of unequal treatment at the hands of the dominant group • Membership is an ascribed status • Share a strong bond and a sense of group loyalty • Tend to practice endogamy

  5. Section 2: Discrimination and Prejudice • Discrimination involves behaviors • Range from name calling to acts of violence on an individual level • Legal discrimination and institutionalized discrimination on a societal level • Prejudice involves attitudes • Sociologist generally focus on the negative forms of prejudice such as racism

  6. Robert K. Merton’s Patterns of Discrimination and Prejudice • Active Bigot: is prejudice, does discriminate • Timid Bigot: is prejudice, afraid to discriminate • Fair-weather Liberal: is not prejudice, does discriminate • All-weather Liberal: is not prejudice, does not discriminate

  7. SOURCES OF DISCRIMINATION AND PREJUDICE • STEREOTYPING • SCAPEGOATING • SOCIAL ENVIRONMENT

  8. Patterns of Minority Group Treatment: • Assimilation • Cultural Pluralism • Legal Protection • Population Transfer • Subjugation • Extermination

  9. Section 3: Minority Groups in the United States • The American Dilemma • Americans have not always practiced what they preached: • Preach- equality, freedom, individual and inalienable rights… • Practiced- segregation, population transfer of Indians to reservations, and the internment of Japanese during WWII • Standard by which minority groups were measured… how closely they adapted to the WASP (white, Anglo-Saxon, Protestant)

  10. African Americans • Second largest minority group as of the 2000 census. • First brought to the U.S. as slaves • Civil Rights Act helped them gain more power and status • Election of 2008: First African American President of the U.S.

  11. Hispanic Americans • Largest and fastest growing minority group in the U.S. as of the 2000 census • Have gained increasing political power in recent years. • Still lag behind non-Hispanic Americans in areas as education and employment

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