Write an essay about minority groups. What makes a group a "minority"? All minority groups have their own particular characteristics, but what general characteristics are sociologically significant? What is assimilation?
What will be an ideal response?
The ideal answer should include:
1. Minorities are those groups that do not receive the same treatment as others in society.
2. Minorities are subordinate segments of a complex society.
3. Minorities tend to have special physical or cultural traits that are seen as undesirable by the dominant segments of the society.
4. Minorities develop a group consciousness or "we feeling."
5. Membership in a minority is transmitted by a rule of descent-one is born into it-which can impose the minority status on future generations even if by then its special physical or cultural traits have disappeared.
6. Members of a minority, whether by choice or by necessity, tend to marry within their group.
7. Assimilation is a process in which a racial or ethnic minority group slowly ceases being "different" by taking on the characteristics of the mainstream culture.
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