What is a minority? Discuss the characteristics of a minority.
What will be an ideal response?
Answers will vary. A minority is any group that may be treated differently and unequally because of their physical, cultural, or other characteristics. The characteristics include gender, age, sexual orientation, religion, ethnicity, or skin color. Minorities may be larger in number than a dominant group, but they have less power, privilege, and social status.
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What is the term for groups that go through established governmental channels to compete and meet their own objectives?
A. governmental institutionalization B. politics C. political science D. the conflict hypothesis
The perspective that sees deviant sexuality as rooted in power relationships and imposition of dominant values is the
a. Functionalist viewpoint. b. Conflict viewpoint. e. Feminist viewpoint. d. Interactionist viewpoint.
Members of a counterculture a. share many elements of the dominant culture and exist within it
b. conform to most of the standards of the dominant culture. c. reject the dominant cultural values of a society. d. seek to redefine the dominant culture.
The Kaiapo of Brazil's rain forest and the Hog Hammock community off the coast of Georgia show us that ________
a. "progress" is typically good. b. social change is usually good for everyone. c. people do not have to change if they do not want to. d. people sometimes lose their cultural foundation as a result of materialism.