SOC 134 Lecture Notes - Lecture 4: Ethnocentrism, White Privilege, Panethnicity
21 Mar 2019
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The structure and discourse of race and ethnicity. No agreed upon definition of either and they often overlap. Race: a group of people who share common physical traits and have a common geographic ancestry. More likely to be an externally imposed category (but not in all cases) Ethnicity: a group of people who share a common identity based on culture; language; and/or nationality. More likely to be identified internally and is typically more fluid than race (but not in all cases) Pan-ethnicity: many broad ethnic categories encompass and subsume specific groups. Multi-racial/ethnic societies are hierarchical with dominant and subordinate (minority) groups. Minority group: a group that receives (on average) significantly less of society"s valued resources and outcomes. Majority groups get more wealth, status, and power. Minority groups may get a lower quality education, employment, housing, health, etc. This is a near universal feature of all societies.
