Race and Ethnicity

Race a socially constructed category composed of people who share biologically

transmitted traits that members of a society consider important.
Racial Typology: Caucasoid are people with light skin and fine hair. Negroid
group of people with dark skin an coarse hair and Mongoloid with yellow or brown skin
and distinctive folds on the eye.
Ethnicity is a shared cultural heritage. People define themselves or others
Minorities any category of people, distinguished by physical or cultural
difference, that a society sets apart and subordinates.
Prejudice a rigid and irrational generalization about entire category of people
Stereotype an exaggerated description applied to every person in some
category
Racism the belief that one racial category is innately superior or inferior to
another.
Scapegoat Theory holds that prejudice springs from frustration among people
who are themselves disadvantaged (Dollard, 1939)
Authoritarian Personality Theory According to T.T. Adorno et al. (1950),
extreme prejudice is a personality trait in certain individuals.this conclusion is supported
by research showing that people who display strong prejudice toward one minority are
usually intolerant of all minorities.
Culture Theory while extreme prejudice may be characteristic of certain people,
some prejudice is found in everyone because it is embedded in a society’s culture
Conflict Theory powerful people use prejudice to justify their oppression of
others. To the extent that anglos look down on illegal latino immigrants in the southwest.
Discrimination Act of treating people unequally. Active does not accept or hire
minorities, Timid Bigot they tend to accept members of minorities because of the law but
still treats them unequal Merton all weather liberal is free of prejudice and
discrimination.
Majority and Minority:
Patterns of interaction
Pluralism is a state in which racial and ethnic minorities are distinct but have
social parity.
Assimilation is the process by which minorities gradually patterns of dominant
culture.
 Segregation refers to the physical and social separation of categories of people
Genocide Systematic annihilation of one category of people by another.
Genocide is intentional action to destroy a group of people in whole or in part. The
hybrid word "genocide" is a combination of the Greek word