Chapter 1 Diversity & Unity in U.S. Society SOC 327 Race & Ethnic Relations.
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Chapter 7 Race and Ethnic Relations
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Myth or Fact? The Civil Rights Act,
affirmative action, and other social policies have eliminated racism in the U.S.
Of all American minorities, American Indians remain among the poorest.
Myth Fact
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Minority Groups
A minority group is a group whose members share distinct physical or cultural
characteristics, are denied access to power and resources
available to other groups, and are accorded fewer rights, privileges, and
opportunities.
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Race and Ethnicity
Race a group of people who are believed to be
a biological group sharing genetically transmitted traits that are defined as important.
Ethnic group a group of people who share a common
historical and cultural heritage and sense of group identity and belongingness.
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Racism
Racism is the view that certain racial or ethnic groups are biologically inferior and that practices involving their domination and exploitation are therefore justified.
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Sources of Prejudice and Discrimination
Prejudice an irrational attitude toward certain people based
solely on their membership in a particular group Discrimination
behaviors, particularly unequal treatment of people because they are members of a particular group
Prejudice and discrimination result from social and psychological sources.
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Sources of Prejudice and Discrimination Merton demonstrated that sometimes
prejudice and discrimination do not go together.
Discriminates Does not discriminate
Prejudiced Prejudiced Discriminator
Prejudiced Nondiscriminator
Not Prejudiced
Unprejudiced Discriminator
Unprejudiced Nondiscriminator
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Social Sources
Ethnocentrism is the tendency to view one’s own group or culture
as an in-group that follows the best and the only proper way to live.
Competition Competitive situations can lead to prejudice and
discrimination. A split labor market is one in which there are two groups of
workers willing to do the same work, but for different wages.
Internal colonialism refers to when a subordinate group provides cheap labor that benefits the dominate group and is then further exploited by having to purchase expensive goods and services from the dominant group.
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Social Sources Socialization
Once patterns of prejudice and discrimination become legitimated, they can then be transmitted to new members through the process of socialization.
Institutionalized Discrimination Institutionalized discrimination is the inequitable
treatment of a group resulting from practices or policies that are incorporated into social, political or economic institutions and that operate independently from the prejudices of individuals.
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Psychological Sources
Stereotyping Stereotypes are oversimplified images in
which each element or person in a category is assumed to possess all the characteristics associated with that category.
Frustration and aggression Frustration and aggression arise when
people become frustrated by their inability to achieve sought after goals.
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Psychological Sources
Authoritarian personality Authoritarian personality refers to a rigid
adherence to conventional lifestyles and values, admiration of power and toughness in interpersonal relationships, submission to authority, cynicism, an emphasis on obedience, and a fear of things that are different.
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Consequences of Discrimination
Discrimination forces some groups into a disadvantageous
position in the stratification system and adversely affects their life chances
may cause those who feel it to accept the devalued and stigmatized view of themselves
creates tense, hostile, and sometimes violent encounters between dominant members and minority group members
undermines our social and political values and institutions
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Racial and Ethnic Minorities in the United States
The United States is composed of many racial and ethnic groups. African Americans Hispanic Americans American Indians Asian Americans Arab Americans
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Patterns of Racial and Ethnic Group Interaction
Genocide Expulsion or population transfer Colonialism Segregation Acculturation Pluralism Assimilation Amalgamation
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Genocide
Annihilation of an entire nation or people.
In the 20th century Hitler led the Nazi extermination of 12 million people in the Holocaust.
In the early 1990s ethnic Serbs attempted to eliminate Muslims from parts of Bosnia.
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Genocide
In 1994 genocide took pace in Rwanda when Hutus slaughtered hundreds of thousands of Tutsis.
Currently in the Darfur region of Sudan, the Sudanese government, using Arab janaweed militias, its air force, and organized starvation, is systematically killing the black Sudanese population.
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Genocide
In 1994 Hutus in Rwanda committed genocide against the Tutsis, resulting in 800,000 deaths.
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Expulsion or Population Transfer
Occurs when a dominant group forces a subordinate group to leave the country or to live only in designated areas of the country.
The 1830 Indian Removal Act called for the relocation of eastern tribes to land west of the Mississippi River.
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Colonialism
A racial or ethnic group from one society dominates the racial or ethnic group(s) of another society. Examples: European invasion of North
America, British occupation of India
Puerto Rico is essentially a colony whose residents are U.S. citizens, but they cannot vote in presidential elections unless they move to the mainland.
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Segregation
Physical separation of two groups in residence, workplace, and social functions. de jure ( by law) de facto (in fact)
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Segregation in the U.S.
Between 1890 and 1910, Jim Crow laws prohibited blacks from using “white” buses, hotels, restaurants, and drinking fountains.
In 1896 the U.S. Supreme Court supported de jure segregation by declaring that “separate but equal” facilities were constitutional.
Beginning in the 1950s various rulings overturned the Jim Crow laws, making it illegal to enforce racial segregation.
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Acculturation
Refers to adopting the culture of a group different from the one in which a person was originally raised.
Acculturation may involve learning the dominant language and adopting new values and behaviors.
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Pluralism Refers to a state in which racial and ethnic
groups maintain their distinctness but respect each other and have equal access to social resources.
In Switzerland, four ethnic groups—French, Italians, Germans, and Swiss Germans—maintain their distinct cultural heritage and group identity in an atmosphere of mutual respect and social equality.
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Assimilation
The process by which formerly separate groups merge and become integrated as one.
Secondary assimilation occurs when different groups become integrated in public areas and social institutions, such as neighborhoods, schools, workplaces, and government.
Primary assimilation occurs when members of different groups are integrated in personal, associations, as with friends, family, and spouses.
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Amalgamation
When different ethnic or racial groups become married or pair-bonded and produce children.
19 states had laws banning interracial marriage until 1967, when they were declared unconstitutional.
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Amalgamation
Since 1960: Number of black-white married couples has
increased fivefold
Number of Asian-white married couples has increased tenfold
Number of Hispanics married to non-Hispanics has tripled
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Today’s Immigrants
Today 14% of immigrants come from Europe, 33% come from Asia and another 41% come from Mexico and Central and South America.
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Future Prospects
Today the most common types of relationships between racial and ethnic groups in the U.S. are: Assimilation Pluralism
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Future Prospects
Techniques that have been used to try to improve race and ethnic relations in the U.S. include: collective protest and civil rights
legislation affirmative action programs school programs and busing improving the economy