Author Question: Identify the ways a group becomes a minority group. Give an example of each. What will be an ... (Read 118 times)

viki · **on:** Jul 2, 2018

Identify the ways a group becomes a minority group. Give an example of each.

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Question 2

What sociological perspective stresses that age has no inherent meaning and that each culture shapes the way that its citizens perceive the elderly?

A) symbolic interactionism
B) functionalism
C) the conflict perspective
D) the feminist perspective

duke02 · **Reply #1 on:** Jul 2, 2018

Answer to Question 1

Someone may be born into minority status by virtue of his or her physical or cultural characteristics or by being a female. In America, someone born of African American parents, a woman, or into an uncommon religion would be a minority. Groups of people can also become minorities when political boundaries are expanded. After the Mexican War, the United States annexed much of what was formerly Mexican territory. The people living in these territories were transformed from being considered Mexicans to being considered Mexican-Americans. Another way a group becomes a minority is through migration. When thousands of Southern and Eastern Europeans immigrated to the United States in the early 1900s, they became minorities upon arrival in America.

Answer to Question 2

A