Chapter 10 Sociology Race and Ethnicity
Chapter 10
Social Significance of Race and Ethnicity
- Race: people who share physical characteristics, such as skin color and facial features that are passed on through reproduction
- social construction: a societal invention that labels people based on physical appearance.
- Skin color, hair texture, and eye shape are examples of unequal treatment
- Ethnic Group: a group of people who identify with a common national origin or cultural heritage that includes language, geographic roots, food, customs, traditions, and/or religion.
- Puerto Ricans, Chinese, Serbs, Arabs, Swedes, Hungarians, Jews
- Racial-Ethnic Group: people who have distinctive physical and cultural characteristics.
Immigrants
- Illegal immigrants do the jobs that most Americans don’t want like clean homes and offices, nannies and busboys, nurses’ aides, and pick fruit for low wage
Dominant and Minority Groups:
- Dominant Group: any physically or culturally distinctive group that has most economic and political power, the greatest privileges, and the highest social status.
- Men are dominant group because they have more status, resources, and power than women.
- Apartheid: a formal system of racial segregation
- Minority: a group of people who may be subject to differential and unequal treatment because of their physical, cultural, and other characteristics such as sex, sexual orientation, religion, ethnicity, or skin color.
- American minorities have fewer choices than dominant group members in finding homes and apartments because they are less likely to get help from a bank to help with mortgage.
- Patterns of Dominant-Minority Group Relations:
- Genocide: the systematic effort to kill all members of a particular ethnic, religious, political, racial, or national group.
- Holocaust in Germany
- Segregation: the physical and social separation of dominant and minority groups. - De Facto: informal; may be voluntary as when members of racial or ethnic groups prefer to live
Social Significance of Race and Ethnicity
- Race: people who share physical characteristics, such as skin color and facial features that are passed on through reproduction
- social construction: a societal invention that labels people based on physical appearance.
- Skin color, hair texture, and eye shape are examples of unequal treatment
- Ethnic Group: a group of people who identify with a common national origin or cultural heritage that includes language, geographic roots, food, customs, traditions, and/or religion.
- Puerto Ricans, Chinese, Serbs, Arabs, Swedes, Hungarians, Jews
- Racial-Ethnic Group: people who have distinctive physical and cultural characteristics.
Immigrants
- Illegal immigrants do the jobs that most Americans don’t want like clean homes and offices, nannies and busboys, nurses’ aides, and pick fruit for low wage
Dominant and Minority Groups:
- Dominant Group: any physically or culturally distinctive group that has most economic and political power, the greatest privileges, and the highest social status.
- Men are dominant group because they have more status, resources, and power than women.
- Apartheid: a formal system of racial segregation
- Minority: a group of people who may be subject to differential and unequal treatment because of their physical, cultural, and other characteristics such as sex, sexual orientation, religion, ethnicity, or skin color.
- American minorities have fewer choices than dominant group members in finding homes and apartments because they are less likely to get help from a bank to help with mortgage.
- Patterns of Dominant-Minority Group Relations:
- Genocide: the systematic effort to kill all members of a particular ethnic, religious, political, racial, or national group.
- Holocaust in Germany
- Segregation: the physical and social separation of dominant and minority groups. - De Facto: informal; may be voluntary as when members of racial or ethnic groups prefer to live