Sociology › Section K · Race and ethnicity › Topic K.4
Intergroup relationships
When groups share a territory, they can live side by side as equals, merge, be pushed apart, be driven out or, at the very worst, be destroyed. Sociologists arrange these patterns on a spectrum and measure how far real societies sit along it.
In this topic
- A spectrum of relations
- Pluralism
- Assimilation
- Segmented assimilation
- Amalgamation
- Segregation
- Worked example: measuring segregation
- Expulsion
- Genocide
- Worked example: placing cases on the spectrum
- Common mistakes to avoid
- Key takeaways
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