SOC 101 Study Guide - Ascribed Status, Minority Group, Endogamy

• School: University at Buffalo
• Department: Sociology
• Course: SOC 101
• Professor: Christopher Mele

Document Summary

Ethnic groups: people often confuse the terms race and ethnic group, race refers to biological characteristics (sex, ethnicity refers to cultural characteristics (gender, common ancestry, cultural heritage, nations of origin. Race and ethnicity: race assumption/biological distinction, ethnicity cultural distinction, both are social constructions, neither have basis in empirical fact, defining race, a biological distinction with no basis in any empirical fact, societal organization of the allocation of. Identifiable by distinguishing physical or cultural traits that are held in low esteem. Minority group characteristics: receives unequal treatment, feels a sense of peoplehood, group solidarity self-identifying one another, membership is an ascribed status, group members practice endogamy (marrying within one"s racial group) The creation of subordinate group status: subordinate groups emerge through migration, annexation, and colonialism, migration the general term used to describe any transfer of population. Immigration occurs when someone enters one country from another country.