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Similarly, an ethnic group is a subgroup of a population with a set of shared social, cultural, and historical experiences; with relatively distinctive beliefs, values, and behaviors; and with some sense of identity of belonging to the subgroup. So conceived, the terms ethnicity and ethnic group avoid the biological connotations of the terms ...
- 10.3 Prejudice
Let’s examine racial and ethnic prejudice further and then...
- 10.1 Racial and Ethnic Relations: An American Dilemma
Decades later, W. E. B. Du Bois (1903/1968, p. vii), one of...
- 10.3 Prejudice
Critical race theory is an intellectual and social framework that examines how racism is embedded in American social life through its systems and institutions. This theoretical framework emerged from the intellectual and social movements of civil-rights scholars and activists who want to examine the intersection of race, society, and law.
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Politics and Society, 27 (1), 5–38. The term “race” refers to groups of people who have differences and similarities in biological traits deemed by society to be socially significant, meaning that people treat other people differently because of them. Meanwhile, ethnicity refers to shared cultural practices, perspectives, and distinctions ...
Theoretical Perspectives. Issues of inequality and discrimination based on race and ethnicity can be observed through the paradigms of positivism, critical sociology and interpretive sociology. As discussed throughout this textbook, the choice of perspective affects the type of analysis sociologists can provide.
Dec 14, 2023 · Race. Let’s start first with race, which refers to a category of people who share certain inherited physical characteristics, such as skin color, facial features, and stature. A key question about race is whether it is more of a biological category or a social category. Most people think of race in biological terms, and for more than 300 ...
A racist believes that certain people are superior, or inferior, to others in light of racial differences. Racists approve of segregation, or the social and physical separation of classes of people. Ethnicity refers to shared cultural practices, perspectives, and distinctions that set apart one group of people from another.
Feb 20, 2021 · An ethnicity is a socially constructed category, the traits and parameters of which can change depending on the prevailing social and political context. A situational ethnicity is an ethnic identity that is particular to a social setting or context. The various approaches to understanding ethnicity include primordialism, essentialism ...
