A SOC 180 Lecture Notes - Lecture 5: Racial Profiling, Reverse Discrimination, Desegregation
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Even after the 2008 election, sizeable majorities of both whites and blacks still think there is some racial discrimination today, with blacks saying it is widespread. For example, 40% of blacks say there is a lot of discrimination against blacks. Race is a category composed of people who share biological transmitted traits. Ethnicity refers to a shared cultural heritage, nationality, or lineage. Minority groups can include both racial and ethnic groups; it is a category of people with unequal access to positions of power, prestige, and wealth in a society and also tends to be targets of prejudice and discrimination. Minority status is not based on numerical representation in society but rather on social status. Minority groups are subordinate segments of a complex society. Minority groups have traits that set them apart and are devalued by dominant segments of the society. Subordinate groups develop a sense of group consciousness we feeling .
