Minority Studies: A Brief Sociological Text is a very, very brief textbook suitable for use as a supplemental or stand-alone text in a college-level minority studies Sociology course. Any instructor who would choose to use this as a stand-alone textbook would need to supply a large amount of statistical data and other pertinent and extraneous Sociological material in order to "flesh-out" fully this course.
Each module/unit of Minority Studies: A Brief Sociological Text contains the text, course objectives, a study guide, key terms and concepts, a lecture outline, assignments, and a reading list.
Minority Studies: A Brief Text: Suggested Lecture Material for Part IV—Hate Kills! The Consequences of Bigotry
- Review Master Status.
- Definitions, discussion, and examples of race.
- Socially defined.
- A social construct.
- Definitions, discussion, and examples of ethnicity.
- How are these divisions determined?
- Why do we make these divisions?
- Definitions, discussion, and examples of dominant group and dominant group status.
- Definitions, discussion, and examples of minority groups and minority group status.
- Discuss and give examples of bigotry against minority groups.
- Assimilation.
- Define and discuss cultural assimilation.
- Define and discuss structural assimilation.
- Definitions, discussion, and examples of expulsion and genocide.
- Use the Internet to display data about expulsion and genocide.
