SOC 110 Lecture Notes - Lecture 19: Ascribed Status, List Of Newspapers In Greece, Miscegenation
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Race and gender (started in pervious lecture: race is 100% socially generated. What race am i classified as based on u. s. census information: egyptian= caucasian. India= asian: pakistan=asians, hispanic (ethnicity)= any racial category. Jewish (ethnicity and religion) = fulfill any racial category: race categories are dependent upon phenotypes (the way they look) Race is a master status: a plane ride can change your race. Ethnicity: (cid:862)ethnos(cid:863) greek for one"s country of origin, nation, ethnicity distinguishes identities in racial groups. Defining minority groups: not based on numbers, ascribed status, majority-minority states, states where populations are mostly minority, texas, new. Dominant minority group contact: focuses on negative repercussions on minority groups coming together, genocide. The systematic (deliberate) execution of an entire category of people. The deliberate removal of a category of people in society: amalgamation. Interaction between races in positive because it brings a new race: miscegenation.
