SOC 3371 Lecture Notes - Lecture 8: Social Inequality
12 Nov 2020
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People who share a common identity and whose members think of themselves as distinct from others by virtue of: ancestry, culture, physical characteristics. Shared identity is reinforced by the way members are treated by outsiders. Racial-ethnic groups are social creations that reflect cultural norms, social inequality, and political power: groups can be redefined or new ones can be created as circumstances dictate. Hispanics: people living in the united states who trace their ancestry to latin america: category was added to the census in the 1970s, constituted 16. 3% of the u. s. population in the 2010 census. Asian american: individual living in the united states who comes from or is descended from people who came from an asian country. Includes people from japan to pakistan: differ in language, religion, alphabet, and physical features, no overall asian category in 2010 census. Non-hispanic whites: people who identify their race as white but do not think of themselves as.
