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- Functionalist views of race study the role dominant and subordinate groups play to create a stable social structure. Conflict theorists examine power disparities and struggles between various racial and ethnic groups. Interactionists see race and ethnicity as important sources of individual identity and social symbolism.
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They aim to explain the social context in which particular experiences and disadvantages based on race or ethnicity are embedded. How did racial and ethnic inequality form in the first place, how does it structure society today, and in which direction is it going in the future?
Describe functionalist views on race and ethnicity. Describe conflict theorists’ views on race and ethnicity. Explain symbolic interactionist views on race and ethnicity. Explain and differentiate between theories of prejudice.
Theories of Race and Ethnicity provides a comprehensive and cutting-edge collection of theoretically grounded and empirically informed chapters. It covers a range of key issues in race and ethnicity studies, such as genetics and race, post-race debates, racial eliminativism and the legacy of Barack Obama and mixed race identities.
We can examine issues of race and ethnicity through three major sociological perspectives: functionalism, conflict theory, and symbolic interactionism. As you read through these theories, ask yourself which one makes the most sense and why.
- Heather Griffiths, Nathan Keirns, Eric Strayer, Tommy Sadler, Susan Cody-Rydzewski, Gail Scaramuzzo,...
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How have research agendas on race and ethnic relations changed over the past two decades and what new developments have emerged? Theories of Race and Ethnicity provides a comprehensive and cutting-edge collection of theoretically grounded and empirically informed essays.
We can examine issues of race and ethnicity through three major sociological perspectives: functionalism, conflict theory, and symbolic interactionism. As you read through these theories, ask yourself which one makes the most sense and why.
In the introduction to this volume, we pointed out that the past few decades have seen important transformations in research agendas on questions about race, racism and ethnicity. In Part I of the collection, we bring together chapters that explore key facets of these debates.
