Examples of minority group in the following topics:
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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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- Collectively, African Americans are more involved in the American political process than other minority groups.
- Collectively, African Americans are more involved in the American political process than other minority groups, indicated by the highest level of voter registration and participation in elections among these groups in 2004 .
- African Americans also have the highest level of Congressional representation of any minority group in the U.S, though this doesn't extend to the senate .
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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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- Women are considered a minority group, because they do not share the same power, privileges, rights, and opportunities as men.
- Women are not a statistical minority, as in most societies -- they are roughly equal in number to men -- but they do qualify as a minority group because they tend to have less power and fewer privileges than men.
- Societies today are home to a variety of different classes, ethnicities, races, and nationalities, and some groups of women may enjoy a higher status and more power relative to select groups of men, depending on factors, such as what racial and ethnic groups they are associated with.
- For instance, U.S. and English law, until the twentieth century, subscribed to the system of coverture, where "by marriage, the husband and wife are one person in law; that is the very being or legal existence of the woman is suspended during the marriage. " Not until 1875 were women in the United States legally defined as persons (Minor v Happersett, 88 U.S. 162).
- In economics, the term "glass ceiling" refers to institutional barriers that prevent minorities and women from advancing beyond a certain point in the corporate world, despite their qualifications and successes.
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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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- Juvenile delinquency is participation in illegal behaviors by minors.
- Juvenile delinquency is participation in illegal behavior by minors.
- Delinquency: crimes committed by minors that are dealt with by the juvenile courts and justice system;
- Status offenses: offenses which are only classified as such because one is a minor, such as truancy, also dealt with by the juvenile courts.
- The majority of adolescents who live in poverty are racial minorities.