ethnic group

Examples of ethnic group in the following topics:

• Ethnic Groups

  • An ethnic group is a group of people who share a common heritage, culture, and/or language; in the U.S., ethnicity often refers to race.
  • An ethnic group is a group of people who identify with each other through a common heritage, which generally consists of a common culture and shared language or dialect.
  • This is due to the historical and ongoing significance of racial distinctions that categorize together what might otherwise have been viewed as ethnic groups.
  • Most prominently in the U.S., Latin American descended populations are grouped in a "Hispanic" or "Latino" ethnicity.
  • The many previously designated "Oriental" ethnic groups are now classified as the "Asian" racial group for the census.

• Ethnicity

  • An ethnic group is a group of people whose members identify with one another through a common cultural heritage.
  • In this way, he pointed to the fact that identification of an ethnic group by outsiders, e.g. anthropologists, may not coincide with the self-identification of the members of that group.
  • Primordialism holds that ethnicity has existed at all times of human history and that modern ethnic groups have historical roots far into the past.
  • Perennialism holds that ethnicity is ever changing, and that while the concept of ethnicity has existed at all times, ethnic groups are generally short lived before the ethnic boundaries realign in new patterns.
  • Provides a glimpse into the many and diverse ethnic groups to be found in China.

• Change in Marriage Rate

  • Over the past three decades, marriage rates in the United States have increased for all racial and ethnic groups.
  • African Americans have married the least of all of the predominant ethnic groups in the U.S. with a 29.9% marriage rate, but have the highest separation rate which is 4.5%.
  • African Americans have married the least of all of the predominant ethnic groups in the U.S. with a 29.9% marriage rate, but have the highest separation rate which is 4.5%.
  • African Americans have married the least of all of the major ethnic groups in the U.S., with a 29.9% marriage rate, but have the highest separation rate which is 4.5%.
  • In the United States, the two ethnic groups with the highest marriage rates included Asians with 58.5%, and Whites with 52.9%.

• Race and Ethnicity

  • An individual is usually externally classified (meaning someone else makes the classification) into a racial group rather than the individual choosing where they belong as part of their identity.
  • Some of the social traits often used for ethnic classification include:
  • Unlike race, ethnicity is not usually externally assigned by other individuals.
  • The term ethnicity focuses more upon a group's connection to a perceived shared past and culture.
  • An example of an ethnic group in the U.S. is Hispanic or Latino.

• The Conflict Perspective

  • For Karl Marx, class conflict was most prominent; other theorists saw racial and ethnic conflict as more significant.
  • For Marx, issues related to race and ethnicity are secondary to class struggle.
  • Other early conflict theorists saw racial and ethnic conflict as more central.
  • Sociologist Ludwig Gumplowicz, in Grundriss der Soziologie (Outlines of Sociology, 1884), described how civilization has been shaped by conflict between cultures and ethnic groups, theorizing that large complex human societies evolved from war and conquest.
  • Explain race and ethnicity from the perspective of different conflict theorists

• Minority Groups

  • 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.
  • Every large society contains ethnic minorities: that is, groups of people whose members identify with each other through a common heritage that often consists of a shared language, culture (often including a religion), or an ideology that stresses common ancestry or endogamy.
  • In some places, subordinate ethnic groups may constitute a numerical majority, such as blacks in South Africa under apartheid.
  • In addition to long-established ethnic minority populations in various nation-states, ethnic minorities may consist of more recent migrant, indigenous, or landless nomadic communities residing within, or between, a particular national territory.
  • This tribe is a small branch of ethnic Miao in the western part of Guizhou Province, China.

• Racial Groups

  • The United States is a diverse country, racially and ethnically.
  • The United States Census Bureau also classifies Americans as "Hispanic or Latino" and "Not Hispanic or Latino," which identifies Hispanic and Latino Americans as a racially diverse ethnicity that composes the largest minority group in the nation.
  • The immigrants to the New World of the Americas came largely from ethnically diverse regions of the European Old World.
  • Efforts to track mixing between groups led to a proliferation of categories (such as "mulatto" and "octoroon") and so-called "blood quantum" distinctions, which refers to the degree of ancestry for an individual of a specific racial or ethnic group (e.g., saying someone is "1/4 Omaha tribe").
  • While many see race and ethnicity as the same thing, ethnicity generally refers to a group of people whose members identify with each other through a common heritage and culture, as opposed to the implication of shared biological traits associated with the term "race."

• Introduction

  • Demographic analysis can relate to whole societies or to smaller groups defined by criteria such as education, religion, or ethnicity.

• The Interactionist Perspective

  • Race and ethnicity affect the meaning we attach to each other's actions.
  • One of the most influential symbolic interactionist theorists on race and ethnic relations was Robert Park.
  • Competition was created by groups fighting for urban resources, like land, which led to a division of urban space into ecological niches.

• Legal Definition of Race

  • Census Bureau currently uses race and ethnicity as self-identification data items.
  • In this system, the residents choose the race or races with which they most closely identify and indicate what their ethnic origin is (e.g., Latino).
  • Some of the characteristics that constitute these groupings are biological and some are learned (cultural or linguistic) traits that are easy to notice.
  • The history of misuse of racial categories to impact adversely one or more groups and to offer protection and advantage to another has a clear impact on the larger debate.
  • This image illustrates U.S. real median household income per year by race and ethnicity from 1967 to 2008, as compiled by the U.S.