Why do sociologists prefer to use the concepts dominant/subordinate over majority/minority? What are two examples where majority/minority do not explain the social factors at play?
Please provide the best answer for the statement
1. The concepts majority/minority give the impression that we are talking about numbers,
and groups with smaller numbers can still maintain the social power.
2. Dominant/subordinate avoid focusing on the percentages of groups in society and instead
point to how much power and control groups have.
3. During apartheid in South Africa, the social group with the most power, the white
population, was smaller in number than the social group experiencing subordination, the
black population. In this case, the smaller percentage of the population was in power;
referring to them as the minority would imply that they had less power.
4. In the United States, some states are called minority-majority states because they have a
larger number of residents of subordinated races than of the dominant race. This often
occurs in the southwestern United States, where Latino/as outnumber whites.
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