SOC 101 Lecture Notes - Lecture 10: Western United States, Offender Profiling, Arab Americans

• School: SDSU
• Department: Sociology
• Course: SOC 101
• Professor: W O N G, A M Y C R I S T E N

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We cannot assume all people are the same. Race: the physical characteristics that distinguish one group from another. The two myths of race should be addressed. *there is no difference in human beings race wise. The minority group: african americans, native americans, latinos, asians and arab. The groups do not derive from numerical values. Dominant and minority groups can be characterized by different criterion across different societies and cultures. Social conditions can be established to promote negative or positive feelings about one social group. The stanford prison experiment is a great example. Here the students learned to hate, punish, and resent one another. Prejudice and discrimination can be functional for many state powers(planned. How groups are pitted against one another. Benefits the class who has the most power. Selective perception--seeing what you wanna see, black people are dangerous . In 1780 nearly 4 million slaves populated the southern states of the us.