SOCI 341 Lecture Notes - Lecture 6: Dominant Minority, Ethnocentrism
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The development of pre industrial relations in pre industrial america: dominant minority relations never occur in vacuums, they are largely a function of a societies subsistence technology. The contact situation is very important when looking at race relations. Part of us foundation from day 1. Came over with dutch as indentured servants. Us was more agrarian until the mid 1800s, industrialization came slowly. In the pre capitalist society a cheap labor force to work plantations was important at the time. The plantation system focused on a few crops tended by slaves under the direction of southern aristocracy. They did not stay indentured servants forever: the noel hypothesis. If 2+ groups come into a contact situation, it is characterized by 3 things: ethnocentricity, competition, differential power. Minority groups forced into that status by dominant group in these circumstances. Rhetoric in south that was passed around in an attempt to justify slavery. Parent child relation between slave owners and slaves.
