SOC 1 Lecture Notes - Lecture 10: Marvin Harris, Pseudoscience, Discrimination Based On Skin Color
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Stereotypes, prejudice, and discrimination: stereotypes are oversimplified generalizations about groups of people. Stereotypes can be based on race, ethnicity, age, gender, sexual orientation almost any characteristic: prejudice refers to the beliefs, thoughts, feelings, and attitudes someone holds about a group. Soc 1: for symbolic interactionists, race and ethnicity provide strong symbols as sources of identity. Current status: the eradication of native american culture continued until the 1960s, when. Native americans were able to participate in and benefit from the civil rights movement: native americans still suffer the effects of centuries of degradation, nu"man. If native americans are the only minority group whose subordinate status occurred by conquest, african americans are the exemplar minority group in the. United states whose ancestors did not come here by choice: students of u. s. history will know that the institution of slavery was crucial to the.
