Social Issues

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Social Issues

• Race Ethnic
• Relations

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What Surrounds Race Ethnic Relations in our
Country?

• Groups of differing
• traditions
• values
• languages
• Scarce Resources

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• Ascribed Status
• positioned assigned to a person with little
  chance of changing

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Perception What Do We See
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Different Levels of Understanding Race Ethnic
Relations

• Micro

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• mid-range

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• macro

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Minority Group

• a group of people who, because of their physical
  or cultural characteristics, are singled out from
  the others in the society in which they live for
  differential and unequal treatment

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• and who therefore regard themselves as objects of
  collective discrimination (Marshall 1994334).

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Race and Ethnicity

• Race
• socially constructed set of categories used
  primarily as a basis for social inequality and
  social oppression (Johnson 2000249).

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• Ethnicity
• group or category of people sharing common
  historical cultural heritage

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Racism

• Encompasses not only prejudice, but any action or
  characteristic of social systems that support
  race privilege, regardless of whether people
  intend that to be the result (Johnson 2000249).

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Prejudice

• It is difficult, if not impossible, to live in a
  society where there is no prejudice (Kitano
  199766).

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• preconceived opinion or bias, against or in
  favor of, a person or thing (Marshall
  1994414).

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• characterized by stereotyped beliefs that are
  not tested against realityhave to do with a
  persons own feelings and attitudes (Marshall
  1994414).

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Stereotype

• An oversimplified generalization by which we
  attribute certain traits or characteristics to a
  group without regard to individual differences
  (Parrillo 200075).

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Discrimination

• the practice of differential and unequal
  treatment of other groups of people (Parrillo
  200086).

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Discrimination Power

• Without power, discrimination is ineffective
  with power, discrimination maintains the
  dominance of one group over the other (Kitano
  199775).

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Ethnocentrism

• Viewing ones culture as superior to another
• In-groups (we)
• Out-groups (they)