Clinical Sociologist		 Dr. John Lamberton
 Putting Sociology to Work
INTRODUCTION TO SOCIOLOGY
 RACE & ETHNICITY

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 Assistant Professor
 
RACE    
A race 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 that is even relevant or useful.   With that said, race has served as a “premier source of human identity” (Smedley, 1998, p. 690).

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BLACK WALL STREET (The Greenwood District) ETHNICITY:  An ethnic group is a collection of people distinguished, by others or by themselves, primarily on the basis of cultural or nationality characteristics. Example

Ethnic groups share five main characteristics:
  • unique cultural traits, such as language, clothing, holidays, or religious practices
  • a sense of community
  • a feeling of ethnocentrism
  • ascribed membership from birth
  • territoriality, or the tendency to occupy a distinct geographic area by choice and/or for self-protection
Prejudice is a negative attitude based on misconceptions about members of   specific racial, ethnic, or other groups.

 Stereotypes are overgeneralizations about the appearance, behavior, or other characteristics of members of particular categories.  Example

 RACISM, PREJUDICE, and DISCRIMINATION
Racism is a set of attitudes, beliefs, and practices that is used to justify the superior treatment of one racial or ethnic group and the inferior treatment of another racial or ethnic group. Example – Example

Symbolic interactionists see prejudice as resulting from social learning. Contact between people from divergent groups should lead to favorable attitudes and behavior when certain factors are present.

Discrimination involves actions or practices of dominant-group members (or their representatives) that have a harmful effect on members of a subordinate group. Individual discrimination consists of one-on-one acts by members of the dominant group that harm members of the subordinate group or their property.

 Institutional discrimination consists of the day-to-day practices of organizations and institutions that have a harmful effect on members of subordinate groups.

Assimilation is a process by which members of subordinate racial and ethnic groups become absorbed into the dominant culture.Ethnic pluralism is the coexistence of a variety of distinct racial and ethnic groups within one society.
Segregation is the spatial and social separation of categories of people by race, ethnicity, class, gender, and/or religion.

GENOCIDE
The deliberate, systematic killing of an entire people or nation is called genocide.  Ethnic warfare

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Example (employment) - Example (types of discrimination) - Example

Racism is a set of attitudes, beliefs, and practices that is used to justify the superior treatment of one racial or ethnic group and the inferior treatment of another racial or ethnic group. Example – Example   

.new history of race video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CVxAlmAPHec

new origins of slavery: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=opUDFaqNgXc

biology of race:  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LAWrwexw-To