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A 6 page paper which presents the sociological concepts of the
terms race and ethnicity. The paper also discusses racial minorities in the United States
and racial discrimination in the United States. Bibliography lists 6 sources.
Page Count:
6 pages (~225 words per page)
File: JR7_RAraceth.doc
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a free country where people of all races and ethnicities can come together and live in freedom, discrimination and prejudice still take place. This seems, for the most part, quite
ridiculous when we note that the country is realistically made up of many different ethnicities and races. In the following paper we discuss this sociological subject, first offering definitions of
race and of ethnicity which enable us to understand the difference between the two are it relates to sociological studies. The paper then discusses minorities in the United States and
then Racial Discrimination in the United States. Race According to the Merriam-Webster Dictionary race can be defined as "a family, tribe, people, or nation belonging to the same
stock," or as "a class or kind of people unified by community of interests, habits, or characteristics" (p. NA). This is, as can be noted, a very simplistic definition that
calls for more investigation, especially as it involves the subject of sociology. As such we provide the following, further defining race: "Race: division into races based on physical appearance/ biological
differences common in 19th. century (Mongoloid/ Negroid/ Caucasoid) linked to moral, cultural and intellectual achievements thus ideological justification for stratification/ differentiation/ oppression (slavery, empire, master race and sub-humans, apartheid) based
on theory of superior/ inferior races" (Anonymous Race and Ethnicity: definitions, 2001; notes3.htm). Sociologists are not only interested in the biological differences, however, but also in the race "as social
construct and/or its use as basis for stratification/ differentiation racialisation: way in which people construct racial categories for their own and other groups based on physical appearance (usually) which are
then used as basis for attribution of moral and intellectual characteristics" (Anonymous Race and Ethnicity: definitions, 2001; notes3.htm). Ethnicity Ethnicity, according to the Merriam-Webster Dictionary, can be defined
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