SOC 0007 Chapter Notes - Chapter 8: White Ethnic, Asian Americans, Minority Group
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Dominant group: group assigning subordinate status to minority groups. Racial stratification: system of inequality in which race is the major criterion for rank and rewards. Racial inequalities shape social relations around the world. Scientists reject the idea that there is a biological basis of race. Even so, races operate as if they are real. Racial classification in the us is on a white-black dichotomy. Racial formation: sociohistorical process by which races are continually being shaped and transformed (omi and winant) In 2000, people were allowed to identify as one or more race (3% of people identify as mixed race as of 2010) Hispanics should be an ethnic group but are racialized in the us. Ethnic groups: groups characterized by culturally distinctive characteristics based on race, religion, or national origin. Jews were viewed as inferior in the us and then reconstructed as white (brodkin, 2009) White ethnic groups have optional ethnicity to choose to identify with a group or not.
