SYG 1000 Lecture Notes - Lecture 16: White Privilege
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Definitions: majority (people in society who have power) vs minority (people without/ with less power, race (people who share physical characteristics) * socially constructed = not a biological category: ethnicity (people who share a common culture) -minorities = higher risk for poverty: education. - quantity: hispanics = lowest levels of education. - quality: less experienced teachers are teaching in schools with mainly minorities: health care and health. - on average, hispanics are the least likely to have health insurance. - blacks are 2x as likely as whites to die from disease, accident, or murder at every stage of life: criminal justice system. - black person arrested is 3x more likely to be sent to prison than is a white person committing the same crime. - black person"s prison sentence is 6 months longer than a white person"s sentence. - blacks are less likely to get probation than are whites. Explanations of racial-ethnic inequality: deficiency theories: blame minorities themselves, biological deficiency.
