Race, Ethnicity, Gender and Class

Over the past half a century there has been a significant increase in the variety of American minority groups. When we use the term ôminority groupö, it is often perceived to mean a statistical number but this is most often misleading because many minority groups labeled as such (like women) are actually a statistical majority of the U.S. population. Conflict theories of sociology explain social issues as various social groups competing for similar resources. While minority status used to be associated with numbers or biology, Wagley and Harris propose five characteristics that define minority groups:

The members of the group experience a pattern of disadvantages or inequality.

The members of the group share a visible trait or characteristic that differe

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