Ethnicity and Ethnic Relations |  |
Learning ObjectivesAfter reading Chapter 1, students should be able to:
| 1. Understand the limits to trying to make sense of race as a biological concept. |
| 2. Understand why subordinating and incorporating the idea of race into a broad definition of ethnicity is more useful. |
| 3. Understand that race and ethnicity are socially constructed labels and categories. |
| 4. Understand how these socially constructed labels and categories shape the lives of members of ethnic subpopulations. |
| 5. Understand how power shapes ethnic relations. |
| 6. Describe the relationship between prejudice and discrimination. |
| 7. Understand the concept of institutional discrimination. |
| 8. Demonstrate how institutionalized discrimination produces ethnic stratification. |
| 9. Describe and provide examples of the different kinds of responses to discrimination. |
| 10. Understand the difference between visible resistance and hidden resistance. |
| 11. Understand how resource shares are important in Understanding ethnic conflict. |
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