SY203 Lecture Notes - Lecture 6: Authoritarian Personality, Minority Group, Ethnocentrism
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Ethnicity: refers to people who identify with one another on the basis of common ancestry and cultural heritage. Ethnic work: refer to the way people construct ethnicity. Minority group: people who are singled out for unequal treatment and who regard themselves as objects of collective discrimination. Act on physical (racial) or cultural (ethnic) differences. Created through: expansion of political boundaries, migration. Dominant group: groups with greater power, privileges, and social status. Characteristics of minority groups: obtained through birth, physical or cultural traits held in low esteem by dominant group, treated unequally by dominant group, marry in own group, feel strong group solidarity. Discrimination: action of unfair treatment directed against someone. Can be based on many different characteristics such as race, age, gender, etc. Individual discrimination: the negative treatment of one person by another. Institutional discrimination: how discrimination is woven into society to such an extent that it becomes routine and part of social policy.
