AFAM 2000H Lecture Notes - Lecture 2: Dominating Decision Rule, Stevie Wonder

• School: University of Georgia
• Department: African American Studies
• Course: AFAM 2000H
• Professor: Gardner

Document Summary

The amount, level, and type of resources (jobs, education, health, money, power, and prestige) an ethnic subpopulation receives. The degree to which these allocated resources locate most members of an ethnic subpopulation in various social hierarchies. The extent to which these allocated resources contribute to those distinctive behaviors, organizations, and cultural systems that provide justification to the dominant subpopulations for making them targets of discrimination. Argument: the more ethnic subpopulation is discriminated is against, the more identifiable the subpopulation are. Responses, adaptations, and reactions to prejudice and discrimination. Concerted efforts to change patterns of discrimination . Large and organized subpopulations can generate political power and initiate some degree of social change. Ex. civil rights movement; ways it was successful: Does not necessarily draw race, but our minds come to a conclusion that political figures are white, homeless is black in the ghetto. A way for sociologists to explain relationships. Try to make connections and explain how and why.