SOC 102 Lecture Notes - Lecture 9: Westboro Baptist Church, Arizona Sb 1070, Ethnocentrism
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Minority group: a category of people with unequal access to posiions of power, presige, and wealth in a society. Tend to be targets of prejudice and discriminaion. Not based on numerical representaion in society but on social status. Asian american (chinese, korean, japanese, asian indians, laoian, filipino, thai, Classiicaion of people based on hereditary physical characterisics such as skin color, hair texture, and the size and shape of the eyes, lips, and nose. No blood test or geneic test that reveals a person"s race. Another problem with race as a biological concept is that the physical traits used to mark a person"s race are arbitrary. Race - social concept: social construcion of race - actual meaning of race not in people"s physical characterisics, but in historical treatment of diferent groups and the signiicance. People learn to perceive others according to whatever racial classiicaion system exists in their culture.
