According to conflict perspective, racial or ethnic minorities are viewed and used as what?

• Race – A group of people who have been identified as having real or alleged physical characteristics. It is the fact that these biological traits are endowed with social meaning that brings them into the realm of the social sciences.

• Ethnicity – refers to people who share common cultural characteristics and ethnic identity; they share a sense of “oneness”, and a shared fate.

• Prejudice – an attitude which predisposes an individual to prejudge entire categories of people unfairly. This attitude is rigid, often emotionally loaded, and resistant to change; “re-fencing” and closed mindedness.

• Discrimination is a behavior resulting in unfair, unequal, or harmful treatment based upon a prejudice.

• One may confront discrimination by focusing on attitudes, behaviors, or both. It is usually most effective to begin with the discriminatory behaviors in order to provide some relief for those discriminated against. The official organs of the state must support these efforts to eliminate discriminatory behaviors or they will most likely continue; institutional discrimination.

• Salience Principle – we categorize people on the basis of what appears initially prominent and obvious- that is, what is salient- about them. The choice of salient characteristics is culturally determined. Thus, race, ethnicity, gender, social class, and religion are among the most prominent features by which people are categorized.

• VERBALIZATION

• JOKES, COMMENTS, RACIAL SLURS

• EXCLUSION

• KEEPING PEOPLE MARGINAL

• AVOIDANCE

• NOT TRAVELING IN CERTAIN AREAS

• PHYSICAL ABUSE

• PHYSICAL ATTACKS

• GENOCIDE

• SYSTEMATIC KILLING OFF OF A GROUP

• PREJUDICE AND DISCRIMINATION BEGIN AS ETHNOCENTRIC ATTITUDES

• AS A RESULT, GROUPS CAN BE PLACED IN A SITUATION WHERE THEY ARE SOCIALLY DISADVANTAGED AND LABELED

• A GROUP’S SITUATION, OVER TIME, IS THUS EXPLAINED AS A RESULT OF INNATE INFERIORITY RATHER THAN LOOKING AT THE SOCIAL STRUCTURE FOR REASONS; THE CYCLE THEN REPEATS ITSELF

Because they are of a different ethnicity, or have different skin color, they were discriminated against, moved away, mistreated, used to do inferior jobs.

anjalipriya1 anjalipriya1 · Answer 2 · 2019-11-15T12:08:30+01:00

Answer

According to many theorists ,ethnic conflict,racial and has been one of the main and important type of conflicts. But as per Karl Marx, who pioneered conflict perspective, issue related race and ethnicity has been secondary.

Explanation

Since there has been sudden changes in the social, political and cultural structure, there has been many conflicts over race and ethnicity. Another reason to this conflict is inter sectional nature of different race and ethnicity.

Here, intersection means the idea of various social, biological, and cultural categories- including race, gender, class, and ethnicity- interact and contribute towards systematic social inequality Ethnocentrism and racism which maintain the status by dividing the individuals along racial and ethnic lines.