1. The Nature of Ethnic Relations Units 2 & 3
Some Basic Concepts
Stratification: Power and Inequality
Prejudice and Discrimination
Assimilation and Pluralism
American Demography and Immigration

2. Some Basic Concepts 4 Key Questions
What is the nature of inter-group relations in multiethnic societies?
How are the various ethnic groups ranked and what are consequences of that ranking system?
How does the dominant group maintain its place and how do subordinate groups attempt to change that?
What are the long-range outcomes of ethnic inter-relations?

3. Some Basic Concepts Ethnic Groups Unique cultural Traits
Sense of Community
Ethnocentrism
Ascribed Membership
Territoriality

4. Some Basic Concepts Race As a Biological Notion As a Social Construct
In the Ideology of Racism

5. Ethnic Stratification
Dominant Groups
Political, Economic, and Cultural Dominance
Middleman Minorities
Minority Groups
Differential Treatment
Social Definition
Differential Power
Categorical Nature
Sociological and Numerical Meanings

6. Ethnic Stratification
Forms of Contact
Conquest
Annexation
Voluntary Immigration
Involuntary Immigration

7. Ethnic Stratification
Outcomes of Contact
Lieberson’s Model: migrant superordination indigenous superordination
Noel’s Model: nature or initial contact ethnocentrism competition for scarce societal resources unequal distribution of power

8. Ethnic Stratification
Minority Responses to Subordination
Pluralistic Minorities
Assimilationist Minorities
Secessionist Minorities
Militant Minorities

9. Prejudice and Discrimination
Prejudice Stereotypes Social Distance
Discrimination Individual Institutional Structural

10. Prejudice and Discrimination
Psychological Theories frustration-aggression authoritarian personality
Normative Theories socialization reference groups Merton’s Paradigm
Power-Conflict Theories economic gain Marxian Theory split labor-market theory political gain