Transcript OAD313 Computer Applications in Business II: Introduction

SOC1023G Social Problems:
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References
Breslau, K. (2000, September 18). Tomorrowland, today. Newsweek. Retrieved on June 5, 2001, from
http://www.msnbc.com/news/457888.asp
Campo-Flores, A. (2001, June 4). A town's two faces. Newsweek. Retrieved June 5, 2001 from the World Wide Web:
http://www.msnbc.com/news/578801.asp
Clemetson, L. (2001, September 18). Love without borders. Newsweek. Retrieved September 10, 2001 from the World
Wide Web: http://www.msnbc.com/news/457892.asp
Cox, O. C. (1948). Caste, class, and race. Garden City, NY: Doubleday.
James-Johnson, A. (2003). NAACP convention examines challenges facing black women professionals. Sun-Sentinel.
Retrieved on September 25, 2003, from http://search.epnet.com/direct.asp?an=2W61351288371&db=tth
Kendall, D. (1998). Social problems in a diverse society. Boston: Allyn and Bacon.
Mooney, L. A., Knox, D., & Schacht, C. (1997). Understanding social problems. Cincinnati, OH: Wadsworth.
Mooney, L. A., Knox, D., & Schacht, C. (2000). Understanding social problems (2nd ed.). Cincinnati, OH: Wadsworth.
Mooney, L. A., Knox, D., & Schacht, C. (2002). Understanding social problems (3rd ed.). Cincinnati, OH: Wadsworth.
O’Keefe, M. (2003). Has the United States become Judeo-Christian-Islamic? Religion News Service. Retrieved on
September 19, 2003, from http://sks15.sirs.com/cgi-bin/hst-article-display?id=0000OH3898S48743WA&type=ART&artno=170939&key=
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Devotions
Peter’s Vision and Cornelius
Peter told them, “You know it is
against the Jewish laws for me to
come into a Gentile home like this.
But God has shown me in a vision
that I should never think of anyone
as inferior. So I came as soon as I
was sent for.
Acts 10:28-29a (The
Living
Bible)
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The most important issue that the
Early Church dealt with was if nonJews (Gentiles) could become
Christians.
This was a major
racial/ethnic issue!
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Devotions
He gives justice to the fatherless and
widows. He loves foreigners and
gives them food and clothing. (You
too must love foreigners . . .)
Deuteronomy 10:18-19a (The Living Bible)
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Devotions
Every third year you are to use your entire
tithe for local welfare programs: Give it to
the Levites who have no inheritance
among you, or to foreigners, or to
widows and orphans within you city, so
that they can eat and be satisfied; and
then Jehovah your God will bless you and
your work.
Deuteronomy 14:28-29 (The Living Bible)
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Race
Sociologically, a race is a category of people
who are believed to share distinct physical
characteristics that are deemed socially
significant. Racial groups are distinguished on
the basis of such physical characteristics as skin
color, hair texture, facial features, and body
shape and size.
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U.S. Census
Since the first U.S. Census of 1790 every
Census has defined race differently.
U.S. Census of 1790
Divided the population into four groups:
Free white males
Free white females
Slaves
Others persons (including free blacks and
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“One drop of blood” Rule
In order to increase the size of the slave
population, the “one drop of blood” rule
appeared, which specified that even one drop
of Negroid blood defined a person as black
and, therefore, eligible for slavery.
U.S. Census of 1960
Divided the population into two groups:
White
Nonwhite
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U.S. Census of 1970
Divided the population into three groups:
White
Black
Other
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U.S. Census of 1990
Divided the population into four groups:
White
Black
American Indians, Aleut, or Eskimo
Asian or Pacific Islander
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U.S. Census of 2000
Divided the population into five groups:
White
Black or African American
American Indian or Alaska Native
Asian
Native Hawaiian or other Pacific Islander
For the first time, this Census allowed an individual
to check more than one group/race.
(Mooney, Knox, & Schacht, 2002)
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Question:
Where are the Hispanics?
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Ethnicity
Ethnicity refers to a shared cultural heritage.
Each ethnic group has important traditions that
give it a unique cultural identity. Ethnic groups
may be distinguished on the basis of many
cultural characteristics, including language,
forms of family structures and roles of family
members, religious beliefs and practices, dietary
customs, forms of artistic expression such as
music and dance,
and national origin.
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Race versus Ethnicity
A black American and a black Jamaican
have different cultural, or ethnic,
backgrounds. Conversely, two
individuals with the same ethnic
background may belong to different
races. Hispanics, for example, may
be white or black.
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Patterns of Majority-Minority Interactions
Colonialism
Occurs when a racial or ethnic group from
one society takes over and dominates the
racial or ethnic group(s) of another society.
India was a colony of Great Britain for many
years.
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Genocide
Refers to the systematic annihilation of one
racial or ethnic group by another.
The European invasion of the Americans,
beginning in the sixteenth century, resulted in the
decimation of most of the original inhabitants of
North and South America. Some native groups
were intentionally killed, while others fell victim to
diseases brought by the Europeans.
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Slavery
Exists when one group treats another group
as property to exploit for financial gain. The
dominant group forces the enslaved group to
live a life of servitude.
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Segregation
Refers to the physical and social separation
of categories of individuals, such as racial or
ethnic groups
De jure
By law
De facto
In fact
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Assimilation
Is the process by which minority groups
gradually adopt the cultural patterns of the
dominant majority group.
Immigrants to the United States may try to
become assimilated by adopting the food, dress,
customs, and language of the American white
majority.
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Pluralism
Refers to a state in which racial and ethnic
groups maintain their distinctiveness, but
respect each other and have equal access to
social resources.
In Switzerland, for example, four ethnic groups-French, Italians, Germans, and Swiss Germans-maintain their distinct cultural heritage and group
identity in an atmosphere of mutual respect and
social equality.
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Amalgamation (“melting pot”)
Occurs when different ethnic or racial groups
intermingle and produce a new and distinct
genetic and cultural population.
One way to achieve amalgamation, or a
“melting pot” society, is for racial and ethnic
groups to intermarry over generations.
Within the United States, the number of
interracial couples has increased by 78% since
1980.
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Race and Ethnic Relations: StructuralFunctionalist Perspective (Order Paradigm)
How is racial and ethnic
inequality dysfunctional for
society?
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Race and Ethnic Relations: StructuralFunctionalist Perspective (Order Paradigm)
Is Immigration Functional or Dysfunctional
for a Society?
It brings new consumers and workers who are
willing to take jobs that many Americans are not
willing to take
Immigrants take jobs away from Americans and
enable employers to keep wages low
Educational institutions face the challenge of
teaching children from diverse cultural
backgrounds
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Race and Ethnic Relations: Symbolic Interactionist
Perspective (Pluralist Paradigm)
Power of symbols
 White versus black knight
 Angel food cake (white) versus devil’s food cake (black)
 Black sheep
 Black plague
 Black magic
 Black mass
 Blackballed
 Blacklisted
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Race and Ethnic Relations: Symbolic Interactionist
Perspective (Pluralist Paradigm)
When racial or ethnic
derogatory terms are used by
society, it contributes to the
feeling of inferiority within
the members of those groups.
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Race and Ethnic Relations: Conflict
Perspective (Conflict Paradigm)
Conflict theorists emphasize the necessity of
maintaining a surplus labor force, that is,
having more workers than are needed. A
surplus labor force assures that wages
remain low for someone is always
available to take a disgruntled worker’s
place.
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Race and Ethnic Relations: Conflict
Perspective (Conflict Paradigm)
According to sociologist Oliver C. Cox
(1948), the primary cause of slavery was
the profit motive of capitalists, not racial
prejudice. African Americans were
enslaved because they were the cheapest
and best workers that owners of
plantations and mines could find to do the
heavy labor.
Kendall (1998, p. 51)
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Race and Ethnic Relations: Prejudice and
Discrimination
Prejudice
Refers to an attitude or judgment, usually
negative, about an entire category of people.
Prejudice may be directed toward individuals
of a particular religion, sexual orientation,
political affiliation, age, social class, sex, race,
or ethnicity
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Discrimination
Sources of Prejudice
Cultural transmission
• Taught and learned through the socialization process
• Ethnocentric or ethnocentrism
– Using one’s own way of life as a standard for
judging others (indicates the belief that one’s race,
culture, society, etc. are superior to all others)
• Eurocentric
– Biased toward white Europeans, often perpetuating
the belief that minority group members are inferior
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Stereotypes
• Prejudicial attitudes toward racial and ethnic groups that
are oversimplified generalizations about a category of
individuals
Media
Racism
Extreme prejudice--the belief that certain groups
of people are innately inferior to other groups
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Race and Ethnic Relations: Prejudice and
Discrimination
Discrimination
Refers to behavior that involves treating
categories of individuals unequally
Prejudice is attitude--discrimination is behavior
Types of discrimination
Individual discrimination
• Overt discrimination
– The individual discriminates because of his or her
own prejudicial attitudes
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• Adaptive discrimination
– The individual discriminates due to the prejudicial
attitude of others--submits to “peer pressure”
Institutional discrimination
• Occurs when normal operations and procedures of social
institutions result in unequal treatment of minorities
• Cultural discrimination
– By adhering to their own culture, minorities are
systematically excluded from the mainstream of
American society.
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– Standardized tests: Minorities may score lower on
these tests not because they are less intelligent, but
because they are less familiar with the vocabulary
and knowledge tested by these exams.
• Structural discrimination
– Minorities are also excluded from equal participation
in society’s institutions because of structural
discrimination
– For example, many jobs require a college degree.
Since minorities are less likely to be college
graduates, the probability that the job will be filled
by a minority is lowered.
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Myth of Asian Superiority
Not all forms of prejudice and
discrimination are expressed in negative
terminology.
Asian American are viewed as the “model
minority” because they outperform
everyone (including whites).
But even a positive stereotype can
create problems
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Dr. Bolender’s Prediction
The “melting pot” phenomenon will continue to
amalgamate most of the non-black racial and
ethnic groups (that currently exist in the United
States) within the next 50 years. Substantial
progress will also be made in the amalgamation
of the black racial group (along with black related
ethnic groups).
When non-Hispanic whites under the age of 25
make up less than 50% of that group, the
amalgamation process will accelerate.
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A Town’s Two Faces
(Campo-Flores, 2001)
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Has the United States Become JudeoChristian-Islamic?
(O'Keefe, 2003)
Leading Muslim organizations say it's time for
Americans to stop using the phrase "JudeoChristian" when describing the values and
character that define the United States.
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Better choices, they say, are "JudeoChristian-Islamic" or "Abrahamic," referring to
Abraham, the patriarch held in common by the
monotheistic big three religions.
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Love Without Borders
(Clemetson, 2001)
Americans are intermarrying like never
before, and they’re reshaping life couple
by couple. What happens after the
wedding?
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NAACP Convention Examines Challenges Facing
Black Women Professionals
(James-Johnson, 2003)
 Within the black community, the strides that women have made are reason to
celebrate. But they also pose new challenges for black America as it struggles with
the growing socio-economic gap between men and women.
 According to a recent report from the U.S. Census, black women are outpacing
black men in the professional and educational arenas. While 26 percent of black
women hold managerial and professional positions, only 18 percent of black men
hold similar jobs. About 28 percent of black men work as machine operators,
fabricators or laborers. Black women have gone further in school, with 18 percent
earning bachelor's degrees compared to 16 percent of black males.
 The implication for black families is considerable, said Niara Sudarkasa, an
anthropologist and scholar in residence at the African-American Research Library in
Fort Lauderdale. Black professional women have the lowest birth rate of any group
in the country, she said, and more are marrying outside their ethnic group, if they
marry at all.
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Tomorrowland, Today
(Breslau, 2000)
The Valley’s influx of hyperachieving technomigrants, along with a swelling Hispanic
population, creates a microcosm of the
future.
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