The Nature of Ethnic Relations Units 2

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The Nature of Ethnic RelationsUnits 2 3

• Some Basic Concepts
• Stratification Power and Inequality
• Prejudice and Discrimination
• Assimilation and Pluralism
• American Demography and Immigration

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Some Basic Concepts
4 Key Questions

• What is the nature of inter-group relations in
  multiethnic societies?
• How are the various ethnic groups ranked and what
  are consequences of that ranking system?
• How does the dominant group maintain its place
  and how do subordinate groups attempt to change
  that?
• What are the long-range outcomes of ethnic
  inter-relations?

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Some Basic Concepts
Ethnic Groups

• Unique cultural Traits
• Sense of Community
• Ethnocentrism
• Ascribed Membership
• Territoriality

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Some Basic Concepts
Race

• As a Biological Notion
• As a Social Construct
• In the Ideology of Racism

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Ethnic Stratification
Dominant Groups
Political, Economic, and Cultural
Dominance Middleman Minorities

• Minority Groups
• Differential Treatment
• Social Definition
• Differential Power
• Categorical Nature
• Sociological and Numerical Meanings

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Ethnic Stratification
Forms of Contact

• Conquest
• Annexation
• Voluntary Immigration
• Involuntary Immigration

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Ethnic Stratification
Outcomes of Contact

• Liebersons Model
  migrant superordination
  indigenous superordination
• Noels Model
  nature or initial contact
  ethnocentrism
  competition for scarce
  societal resources unequal distribution
  of power

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Ethnic Stratification
Minority Responses to Subordination

• Pluralistic Minorities
• Assimilationist Minorities
• Secessionist Minorities
• Militant Minorities

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Prejudice and Discrimination

• Prejudice
  Stereotypes
  Social Distance
• Discrimination
  Individual
  Institutional Structural

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Prejudice and Discrimination

• Psychological Theories
  frustration-aggression
  authoritarian personality
• Normative Theories
  socialization
  reference groups
  Mertons
  Paradigm
• Power-Conflict Theories
  economic gain
  Marxian Theory
  split
  labor-market theory
  political gain