SOC 1001 Lecture Notes - Lecture 9: William Graham Sumner, Vietnamese Americans, White Ethnic
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Racial group: group that is set apart from others because of physical differences that have taken on social significance, examples: whites, african americans, and asian americans. Ethnic group: set apart from others primarily because of its national origin or distinctive cultural patterns, examples: in the us, puerto ricans, jews, and polish americans. Minority groups: numerical minority is any group that makes up less than half of some larger population. Population of us includes thousands of numerical minorities, including television actors, green-eyed people, tax lawyers, and descendants of the pilgrims who arrived on the. Mayflower : these numerical minorities are not considered to be minorities in the sociological sense. Minority group: subordinate group whose members have significantly less control or power over their own lives than the members a dominant or majority group have over theirs, five basic properties of a minority group.
