Ch 9 Inequalities of Race

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Ch 9 Inequalities of Race Ethnicity

• Concepts Patterns

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Is race real?

• Race inherited physical characteristics that
  distinguish one group from another (222)
• Real
• Also myth in 2 ways

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Race is a myth

• Idea that a particular race is superior to
  another race
• False and dangerous
• Led to genocide systematic annihilation or
  attempted annihilation of a race or ethnic group
  (G-5)
• Many examples of people believing
• Aryan superiority
• White superiority

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Race is a myth

• Idea that there is such a thing as a pure race
• Races are arbitrary construction
• Many classification systems
• Developed by biologists, anthropologists
• Idea of race is real
• People act as if it is real every day

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Ethnic group

• Def. A group having distinctive cultural
  characteristics
• People who identify with one another
• Based on common culture ancestry
• Focus on country of origin

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Minority group

• Louis Wirths def. -
• A group of people who,
• because of physical/cultural characteristics
• singled out from others in society
• for differential unequal treatment
• regard themselves as objects of collective
  discrimination

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Minority group

• Key ideas
• Characteristics distinguish from dominant group
• Dominant group may be smaller
• Minority members denied equal treatment
• Members see selves as objects of discr, have
  sense of common identify
• Develop through 2 ways
• Expansion of political boundaries
• Migration, voluntary or involuntary

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Patterns of Intergroup Relations

• Genocide
• Define minority as not fully human
• Facilitated by labels that justify killing
• E.g., Native Americans were savages
• Population transfer
• Forcing minority group to relocate
• Indirect leave because conditions so difficlt
• Direct removed from area

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Patterns of Intergroup Relations

• Internal colonialism
• Systematic economic exploitation of a group
• Dominant group controls social institutions to
  obtain/maintain economic advantage
• E.g., slavery, apartheid
• Segregation
• Policy of keeping racial/ethnic group apart
• Often with internal col
• Can exploit labor but maintain social distance

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Patterns of Intergroup Relations

• Assimilation
• Process of being absorbed into dominant culture
• 2 types
• Forced not allowed practice own religion, use
  language, etc.
• Permissible adopts gradually
• Pluralism/multiculturalism
• Policy permits/encourages groups express unique
  racial/ethnic identities
• Freely participate in societys institutions

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Concepts

• Prejudice attitude, usually negative
• Discrimination action resulting in unfair
  treatment of group or individual
• Racism p/d based on race
• Sexism p/d based on sex
• Ageism p/d based on age, usually elder/youth

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Discrimination

• Research
• Bobo Kluegel older, less educated whites want
  more social distance
• Muir frat members more p than nonfrats
• Individual discr
• Negative treatment of one person by another on
  basis of that persons perceived characteristics
• Institutional discr
• Negative treatment of minority group built into
  institutions

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Discrimination

• Institutional discr
• Negative treatment of minority group built into
  institutions
• E.g., practice of seniority
• Minorities, women less likely be promoted
• E.g., home mortgages
• Af Am Latinos 60 more likely rejected
• Even when applicants credit histories identical
• E.g., health care
• White 89 more likely receive coronary bypass
  surgery
• Even when controlling for age, sex, race, income

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Theories of Prejudice

• Frustration/Aggression
• Authoritarian Personality
• Functionalism
• Conflict
• Symbolic Interactionism

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Theories of Prejudice

• Frustration/Aggression