Sociology › Section K · Race and ethnicity › Topic K.1
Racial, ethnic, and minority groups
Race, ethnicity and minority status are three of the most powerful labels a society hands out, and in everyday talk they blur together. Sociologists keep them apart, because each one points to a different thing: perceived physical difference, shared culture, and unequal power.
In this topic
- Three labels, three questions
- Race as a social construction
- Categories change across time and place
- Ethnicity: shared culture
- Symbolic ethnicity and pan-ethnicity
- Minority and dominant groups
- Five features of a minority group
- Worked example: sorting the labels
- Worked example: the multiracial jump
- Common mistakes to avoid
- Key takeaways
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