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vicotolentino

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Stereotypes
 
  A) are largely based on the truth.
  B) are always negative.
  C) are only held by members of dominant groups.
  D) often become justifications for discriminatory behavior.

Question 2

Delineate and give examples of the five characteristics of a minority or subordinate group.
 
  What will be an ideal response?



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Answer to Question 1

D

Answer to Question 2

A minority or subordinate group has five characteristics: unequal treatment, distinguishing physical or cultural traits, involuntary membership, awareness of subordination, and in-group marriage:
1 . Members of a minority experience unequal treatment and have less power over their lives than members of a dominant group have over theirs. Prejudice, discrimination, segregation, and even extermination create this social inequality.
2 . Members of a minority group share physical or cultural characteristics such as skin color or language that distinguish them from the dominant group. Each society has its own arbitrary standard for determining which characteristics are most important in defining dominant and minority groups.
3 . Membership in a dominant or minority group is not voluntary: People are born into the group. A person does not choose to be African American or White.
4 . Minority-group members have a strong sense of group solidarity. William Graham Sumner, writing in 1906, noted that people make distinctions between members of their own group (the in-group) and everyone else (the out-group). When a group is the object of long-term prejudice and discrimination, the feeling of us versus them often becomes intense.
5 . Members of a minority generally marry others from the same group. A member of a dominant group often is unwilling to join a supposedly inferior minority by marrying one of its members. In addition, the minority group's sense of solidarity encourages marriage within the group and discourages marriage to outsiders.




vicotolentino

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Reply 2 on: Aug 8, 2018
Wow, this really help


billybob123

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Excellent

 

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