Majority-Minority Relations Census Update (2-downloads)

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Why groups interact as they do

 

Majority – Minority Relations helps students develop an understanding of the principles and process that influence race and ethnic relations.

 

This topically organized text is designed to develop students' understanding of the principles and processes that shape the patterns of relations between racial, ethnic, and other groups in society. Organized by topic, this book provides a more integrated look at the social forces that affect different racial groups.

 

The Census Update program incorporates 2010 Census data into a course–simply and easily. The components of the Census Update Program include an updated census edition with all charts and graphs–to reflect the results of the 2010 Census. In addition, A Short Introduction to the U.S. Census is available and an updated MySocKit.

 

Teaching & Learning Experience Personalize Learning – MySocKit delivers proven results in helping students succeed, provides engaging experiences that personalize learning, and comes from a trusted partner with educational expertise and a deep commitment to helping students and instructors achieve their goals. Improve Critical Thinking – Encourages students to critically evaluate racial inequality and conflict. Engage Students – Topical organization helps students delve into the sociology of inter-group relations. Explore Theory – Integrated look at the social forces, principles, and processes that impact different racial groups. Support Instructors – MySocKit enables instructors to assess student progress and adapt course material to meet the specific needs of the class.

Note: MySocKit does not come automatically packaged with this text. To purchase MySocKit, please visit: www.mysockit.com or you can purchase a ValuePack of the text + MySocKit (at no additional cost). ValuePack ISBN-10: 0205172229 / ValuePack ISBN-13: 9780205172221

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ISBN13:9780205225002
Taal:Engels
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<div text-align="left"> </div> <p style="margin:0px;">IN THIS SECTION:</p> <p style="margin:0px;">1.) BRIEF</p> <p style="margin:0px;">2.) COMPREHENSIVE</p> <p style="margin:0px;"> </p> <p style="margin:0px;"> </p> <hr> <p style="margin:0px;"></p> <p style="margin:0px;">&nbsp;</p> <p style="margin:0px;"><u>BRIEF TABLE OF CONTENTS:<br></u></p> <p style="margin:0px;">Chapter 1: Orientation: Basic Terms and Concepts&nbsp;&nbsp; </p> <p style="margin:0px;">&nbsp;</p> <p style="margin:0px;">Part I: Social-Psychology and Social Structure as Ways of Understanding Majority-Minority Relations<br>Chapter 2: Prejudice: Its Forms and Causes&nbsp;&nbsp; <br>Chapter 3: Reducing Prejudice: How Achievable? How Important?&nbsp;&nbsp; <br>Chapter 4: Macro-Sociological Perspectives: The Order and Conflict Models&nbsp;&nbsp; </p> <p style="margin:0px;">&nbsp;</p> <p style="margin:0px;">Part II: The Historical Roots of Today’s Intergroup Inequality and Majority-Minority Relations<br>Chapter 5: Origins and Causes of Ethnic Inequality&nbsp;&nbsp; <br>Chapter 6: Changing Patterns of Majority-Minority Relations in the United States&nbsp;&nbsp; <br>Chapter 7: Minority Group Movements and Their Impact on Society <br>Chapter 8: Changing Values, Goals, and Models: New Thinking on Assimilation, Pluralism, and Separatism <br>Chapter 9: Cross-Cultural Studies of Majority-Minority Relations </p> <p style="margin:0px;">&nbsp;</p> <p style="margin:0px;">Part III: Majority-Minority Relations in America Today: The Role of Institutional Discrimination<br>Chapter 10: The Status of Majority and Minority Groups in the United States Today&nbsp;&nbsp; <br>Chapter 11: The Economic and Health Care Systems and Minority Groups in America&nbsp;&nbsp; <br>Chapter 12: Living Apart: Housing Segregation in America&nbsp;&nbsp; <br>Chapter 13: The American Political and Legal System and Majority-Minority Relations&nbsp;&nbsp; <br>Chapter 14: Education and American Minority Groups&nbsp;&nbsp; </p> <p style="margin:0px;">&nbsp;</p> <p style="margin:0px;">Part IV: Current and Future Issues in Majority-Minority Relations<br>Chapter 15: Current Trends in Majority-Minority Relations&nbsp;&nbsp; <br>Chapter 16: Current Debates: Affirmative Action, Immigration, and Race Versus Class&nbsp;&nbsp; <br></p> <p style="margin:0px;"></p> <div> <hr> </div> <div> <div> &nbsp; </div> <div> <u>COMPREHENSIVE TABLE OF CONTENTS:</u> </div> <div> &nbsp; </div> <div> Chapter 1: Orientation: Basic Terms and Concepts </div> </div> <div> Why Study Race and Ethnic Relations? </div> <div> Emphasis and Approach of This Book </div> <div> Basic Terms and Concepts </div> <div> Summary and Conclusion </div> <div> Critical Review Questions </div> <div> Key Terms </div> <div> <br> <u>Part I: Social Psychology and Social Structure as Ways of Understanding Majority-Minority Relations</u> </div> <div> <br> Chapter 2: Prejudice: Its Forms and Causes </div> <div> What Is Prejudice? </div> <div> Forms of Prejudice </div> <div> Stereotypes </div> <div> Causes of Prejudice </div> <div> Theories About Personality and Prejudice </div> <div> Social Learning and Symbolic Interactionist Theories of Prejudice </div> <div> Socioeconomic Status and Prejudice </div> <div> Summary and Conclusion </div> <div> Critical Review Questions </div> <div> Key Terms </div> <div> <br> Chapter 3: Reducing Prejudice: How Achievable? How Important? </div> <div> Reducing Prejudice: Some Principles and Approaches </div> <div> How Important Is Prejudice? </div> <div> Summary and Conclusion </div> <div> Critical Review Questions </div> <div> Key Terms </div> <div> <br> Chapter 4: Macro-Sociological Perspectives: The Order and Conflict Models </div> <div> Sociological Versus Social-Psychological Approaches to Majority-Minority Relations <br>Perspectives in Sociology </div> <div> Order and Conflict: Two Sociological Perspectives </div> <div> The Social-Structural Perspectives and Social Problems </div> <div> The Social-Structural Perspectives and Majority-Minority Relations </div> <div> An Illustration of the Debate: Culture of Poverty Theory and African American Families </div> <div> Summary and Conclusion </div> <div> Critical Review Questions </div> <div> Key Terms </div> <div> <br> <u>Part II: The Historical Roots of Today’s Intergroup Inequality and Majority-Minority Relations</u> </div> <div> <br> Chapter 5: Origins and Causes of Ethnic Inequality </div> <div> Patterns of Race and Ethnic Relations </div> <div> The Development of Ethnic Stratification </div> <div> Origins of Racial and Ethnic Inequality in the United States </div> <div> Summary and Conclusion </div> <div> Critical Review Questions </div> <div> Key Terms </div> <div> <br> Chapter 6: Changing Patterns of Majority-Minority Relations in the United States </div> <div> Origins of Contact and Modern-Day Race Relations: A Theory of Internal Colonialism </div> <div> Evolving Patterns of Black-White Race Relations </div> <div> Rigid Competitive Race Relations and Other Racial and Ethnic Groups </div> <div> A Shift to Fluid Competitive Race Relations: America Since World War II </div> <div> Factors Causing the Changes: The Effects of Urbanization and Industrialization </div> <div> Summary and Conclusion </div> <div> Critical Review Questions </div> <div> Key Terms </div> <div> <br> Chapter 7: Minority Group Movements and Their Impact on Society </div> <div> Adaptive Responses </div> <div> Change-Oriented Responses </div> <div> A Shift Toward Change-Oriented Responses </div> <div> The Rising Tide of Protest </div> <div> Necessary Conditions for Social Movements </div> <div> Development of These Conditions and the Formation of Minority Social Movements in the United States After World War II </div> <div> Summary and Conclusion </div> <div> Critical Review Questions </div> <div> Key Term </div> <div> <br> Chapter 8: Changing Values, Goals, and Models: New Thinking on Assimilation, Pluralism, and Separatism </div> <div> Changing Goals for Minority Group Movements </div> <div> Three Ideal Models of Intergroup Relations </div> <div> Assimilation, Pluralism, and Separatism in American Society </div> <div> Changing Attitudes Toward Assimilation and Pluralism </div> <div> Summary and Conclusion </div> <div> Critical Review Questions </div> <div> Key Terms </div> <div> <br> Chapter 9: Cross-Cultural Studies of Majority-Minority Relations </div> <div> Cross-Cultural Evidence on the Effects of Colonization </div> <div> Societies with Peaceful Intergroup Relations </div> <div> Cross-Cultural Evidence on the Effects of Urbanization and Modernization </div> <div> Combined Effects of Colonialism and Degree of Modernization </div> <div> Number of Racial and Ethnic Groups </div> <div> Cultural and Demographic Characteristics of Majority and Minority Groups: Brazil and Mexico </div> <div> Overlapping Versus Crosscutting Cleavages </div> <div> Territorial Ethnic Base </div> <div> Language </div> <div> International Relationships <br>Racial Versus Ethnic Divisions </div> <div> International Pressure </div> <div> Summary and Conclusion </div> <div> Critical Review Questions </div> <div> Key Terms </div> <div> <br> <div> <u>Part III: Majority-Minority Relations in America Today: The Role of Institutional Discrimination<br></u>&nbsp; </div> Chapter 10: The Status of Majority and Minority Groups in the United States Today </div> <div> Major Racial and Ethnic Groups: Overview and General Statistics </div> <div> Status of Minority Groups in America Today </div> <div> The Intersection of Race, Gender, and Class Inequality </div> <div> Summary and Conclusion </div> <div> Critical Review Questions </div> <div> Key Terms </div> <div> <br> Chapter 11: The Economic and Health Care Systems and Minority Groups in America </div> <div> Wealth and Race: Asset Ownership in America Today <br>The Economics of Discrimination: Three Theories <br>Recent Trends and Their Effects on Economic Inequality </div> <div> The Fiscal Troubles of Cities and Their Impact on Minorities </div> <div> Health Care and Minorities </div> <div> Summary and Conclusion </div> <div> Critical Review Questions </div> <div> Key Terms </div> <div> <br> Chapter 12: Living Apart: Housing Segregation in America </div> <div> Housing Discrimination and Segregation <br>Housing Segregation Between Blacks and Whites </div> <div> Causes of Continuing Black-White Segregation </div> <div> Housing Segregation Among Latinos/as, Asian Americans, and Native Americans </div> <div> Discrimination in Home Finance and Insurance </div> <div> Impacts of Segregation </div> <div> Race, Segregation, and Hurricane Katrina </div> <div> Summary and Conclusion </div> <div> Critical Review Questions </div> <div> Key Terms </div> <div> <br> Chapter 13: The American Political and Legal System and Majority-Minority Relations </div> <div> Government in America: Agent of Minority Oppression or Protector of Minority Rights? </div> <div> The American Legal System and Majority-Minority Relations </div> <div> Summary and Conclusion </div> <div> Critical Review Questions </div> <div> Key Terms </div> <div> <br> Chapter 14: Education and American Minority Groups </div> <div> A Brief History of School Segregation Since 1954 </div> <div> The Role of Education: Two Views </div> <div> Funding of Schools </div> <div> Cultural and Behavioral Factors in the Education of Minorities </div> <div> Teachers’ Expectations and Tracking </div> <div> Linguistic Issues and the Bilingual Education Debate </div> <div> Test Bias and The Standardized Testing Debate </div> <div> Lack of Minority Role Models </div> <div> Racial Bias in the Educational System: An Evaluation </div> <div> Resolving Problems of Majority-Minority Inequality in Education: Four Approaches </div> <div> Summary and Conclusion </div> <div> Critical Review Questions </div> <div> Key Terms </div> <div> <br> <u>Part IV: Values, Goals, and Issues of the Present and Future in Majority-Minority Relations</u> </div> <div> <br> Chapter 15: Current Trends in Majority-Minority Relations </div> <div> Diversity and Multiculturalism in Work and Education <br>Hate Group Activity and Hate Crime <br>Combating Hatred on Campus: Debates and Issues </div> <div> The Discrimination-Testing Movement </div> <div> Summary and Conclusion </div> <div> Critical Review Questions </div> <div> Key Terms </div> <div> <br> Chapter 16: Current Debates: Affirmative Action, Immigration, and Race Versus Class </div> <div> Affirmative Action <br>The Relative Importance of Race and Class in American Society </div> <div> Immigration Policy </div> <div> Summary and Conclusion </div> <div> Critical Review Questions </div> <div> Key Terms </div> <div> &nbsp; </div> <div> <div> Glossary </div> <div> References </div> <div> Photo Credits </div> <div> Name Index </div> <div> Subject Index </div> </div>

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