Examples of minority group in the following topics:
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- A minority group is a sociological category within a demographic that is differentiated and defined by the social majority.
- While in most societies, numbers of men and women are roughly equal, the status of women as a subordinate group has led some (especially within feminist movements) to equate them with minorities.
- Children can also be understood as a minority group in these terms, as they are economically non-active and not necessarily given all the rights of adult citizens.
- One major, particularly controversial policy targeting minority groups is affirmative action.
- These may be considered necessary because the minority group in question is socially disadvantaged.
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- The term "minority" is applied to various groups who hold few or no positions of power in a given society.
- Minority group status is also categorical in nature: an individual who exhibits the physical or behavioral characteristics of a given minority group will be accorded the status of that group and be subject to the same treatment as other members of that minority group.
- Recognition of lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender people as a minority group or groups has gained prominence in the Western world since the nineteenth century.
- While in most societies the numbers of men and women are roughly equal, the status of women as a oppressed group has led some, such as feminists and other participants in women's rights movements, to identify them as a minority group.
- Persons belonging to religious minorities have a faith which is different from that held by the majority population or the population group that is in power.
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- Racism is usually directed against a minority population, but may also be directed against a majority population.
- The definition of a minority group can vary, depending on specific context, but generally refers to either a sub-group that does not form either a majority or a plurality of the total population, or a group that, while not necessarily a numerical minority, is disadvantaged or otherwise has less power (whether political or economic) than a dominant group.
- The issue of establishing minority groups, and determining the extent of privileges they might derive from their status, is controversial.
- The assimilation of minority groups into majority groups can be seen as a form of racism.
- In this process, the minority group sheds its distinctive traits and is absorbed into the dominant group.
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- Panic is a sudden terror which dominates thinking and often affects groups of people.
- Panics typically occur in disaster situations, such as during a fire, and may endanger the overall health of the affected group.
- A moral panic is a mass movement based on the perception that some individual or group, frequently a minority group or a subculture, poses a menace to society.
- These panics are generally fuelled by media coverage of social issues (although semi-spontaneous moral panics do occur and some moral panics have historically been fueled by religious missions, governmental campaigns, and scientific mobilizing against minority groups that used media outlets to further their claims), and often include a large element of mass hysteria.
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- There is evidence that black senior citizens are more likely to be abused - both physically and psychologically and suffer greater financial exploitation than do white senior citizens.Further, recent demographic profiles suggest that social aging varies across racial groups, and demonstrates that minority elders (especially Hispanic and African American identified) typically enter later life with less education, less financial resources, and less access to health care than their white counterparts.Finally, researchers have noted that minority groups' greater likelihood of facing patterns of structural disadvantage throughout the life course, such as racial discrimination, poverty, and fewer social, political, and economic resources on average, create significant racial variations in the stages or age-related trajectories of racial minorities and majorities that may be observed at all points of the life span, and contribute to disparities in health, income, self-perceived age, mortality, and morbidity.
- As a result, sociologists often explore the timing (in both subjective and objective conceptualizations of age) of varied life events within and between racial groups while exploring ways that age-related disparities influence the structural realities and bio-social outcomes of people located within different racial groups.
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- A common example of discrimination is the exclusion or restriction of members of one group from opportunities that are available to another group, such as access to public facilities like bathrooms and water fountains.
- Reverse discrimination is a term referring to discrimination against members of a dominant or majority group, including the city or state, or in favor of members of a minority or historically disadvantaged group.
- Groups may be defined in terms of race, gender, ethnicity, or other factors.
- This discrimination may seek to redress social inequalities where minority groups have been denied access to the same privileges of the majority group.
- In such cases it is intended to remove discrimination that minority groups may already face.
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- Nevertheless, despite a difficult history, Asian Americans have earned the positive stereotype of the model minority.
- The model minority stereotype is applied to a minority group that is seen as reaching significant educational, professional, and socioeconomic levels without challenging the existing establishment.
- By contrast, Cuban Americans are often seen as a model minority group within the larger Hispanic group.
- As with Asian Americans, however, being a model minority can mask the issue of powerlessness that these minority groups face in U.S. society.
- Describe the history and current situation of at least three minorities in the U.S.
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- When compared to European Americans, these minority groups have higher incidents of chronic diseases, higher mortality, and poorer health outcomes.
- 2) From the barriers certain minority groups encounter when trying to enter into the health care delivery system.
- 3) From the quality of health care different minority groups receive.
- Minority groups in the United States lack insurance coverage at higher rates than members of dominant groups.
- While problems with health literacy are not limited to minority groups, the problem can be more pronounced in these groups than in whites due to socioeconomic and educational factors.
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- Companies seeking a diverse workforce face issues of assimilation into the majority group and wage equality for minorities.
- These differences can lead to less effective teams and reduced synergy in work groups.
- Resistance forces minorities to bear the burden of changing to fit the existing culture, thereby limiting the initial value of having new perspectives in the first place.
- The glass ceiling represents an invisible barrier to employees of minority backgrounds, one that keeps them from achieving executive positions in corporations.
- Though this gap highlights gender inequality in particular, the strength of the empirical data suggests that a glass ceiling could apply to any minority group.
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- This time "representatives of three groups [were present]: cognitive psychologists, curriculum theorists and instructional researchers, and testing and assessment specialists" (Anderson, & Krathwohl, 2001, p. xxviii).
- Like the original group, they were also arduous and diligent in their pursuit of learning, spending six years to finalize their work.
- Published in 2001, the revision includes several seemingly minor yet actually quite significant changes.