Racial and Ethnic Groups Michelle Winner ETH 125 October 23‚ 2010 NIKIYA SPENCE Racial and Ethnic Groups There are three sociological perspectives of race and ethnicity which are functionalist‚ conflict‚ and labeling perspectives. The first one I will discuss is the functionalist perspective. The functionalist perspective emphasizes how the parts of society are structured to maintain its stability. As also described in the reading the functionalist approach is an approach‚ if an aspect
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Hispanic American Diversity Eth/125 Cultural Diversity (Axia) Hispanic American Diversity Introduction The four Hispanic groups I am going to be writing about are Mexican American‚ Cuban Americans‚ Puerto Ricans‚ and El Salvadorians. The interesting part of these four groups is that they speak the Spanish language. When speaking Spanish‚ each of these four groups‚ have a different dialect; however‚ the spelling is the same‚ they are pronounced the same‚ the words have different meanings. In
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Part I Define the following terms: Term Definition Ethnic group Anti-Semitism Islamophobia Xenophobia Persecution Religious group Part II Select at least 1 religious and 1 ethnic group not your own from the list below. • Religious groups (based on http://religions.pewforum.org/pdf/affiliations-all-traditions.pdf) o Christianity • Evangelical Protestant • Mainline Protestant • Historically Black Churches • Roman Catholic • Latter-Day Saints (Mormons)
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membership within a group. Relative deprivation Is one being deprived of things that one thinks they are entitled to. Absolute deprivation Defines the poverty line‚ deems what is adequate income in a certain country. Part II Write a 100- to 150 word response to each of the following questions: What are causes of discrimination? Discrimination can come in all shapes and sizes. It can happen in everyday life and also in the work place. A lot of discrimination comes from ignorance‚ uneducated
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Appendix D Part I Define the following terms: Term Definition Ethnic group A group set apart from others because of its national origin or distinctive cultural patterns Anti-Semitism Anti-Semitism is the intense dislike for and prejudice against Jewish people. (Vocabulary.com 2012) Islamophobia Islamophobia is prejudice against Muslims. (Vocabulary.com 2012) Xenophobia Xenophobia is a fear of foreigners or strangers. (Vocabulary.com 2012) Persecution Persecution is
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Associate Program Material Aging and Disability Worksheet Part I Identify 2 or 3 issues faced by the aging population. 1. Health Issues 2. Not enough money to live on once they are on a government pension 3. Loss of loved ones Answer the following questions in 100 to 200 words each. Provide citations for all the sources you use. • What is ageism? How does ageism influence the presence of diversity in society? Ageism is the discrimination and prejudice
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ed.). • Choose one of the four scenarios. • Post your response to this question: Identify one or more ways that the cultural differences in the scenario you choose may be leading to miscommunication. How would you resolve these differences? Getting Started 11.1 Identifying Sources of Miscommunication In each of the following situations‚ identify one or more ways that cultural differences may be leading to miscommunication. 1. Alan is a US sales representative in Mexico. He makes
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Religious and Ethnic Diversity For this assignment I have decided to pick for religion Jehovah Witness and for race I picked Blacks. I pick Jehovah witness because there are many people that think of them as a bother‚ a cult more than a religion. I know there have to be more to that religion that all the negative things that I continue to hear. I picked blacks as my race because I feel that is one race that I can best identify with because have gone through some of the same things over
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ETH-125 Week #9 Final Project: Race and Your Community • Write a 1‚400- to 1‚750-word autobiographical research paper analyzing the influences of race as it relates to your community. In your paper‚ write your first-person account of how human interactions in your community have been racialized. For the community‚ you may consider relations within your neighborhood‚ local government‚ service groups‚ clubs‚ schools‚ workplace‚ or any environment of which you are a part. • Answer the following
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ETH/125 Individual Final Project University of Phoenix ETH/125 Christine Boyer‚ Instructor February 24‚ 2013 Individual Final Project When it comes to the topic of diversity and what is has taught me I really think of a few things. Diversity has really taught me a lot about myself as well as tolerance to others around me. Really there is nowhere in the world today that diversity is not present or has not had some sort of effect on our society as a whole. All in all I think that diversity
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