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.
Suggested lecture material for part i—dominant and minority groups
- Review Master Status.
- Definitions, discussion, and examples of dominant group and dominant group status.
- Discuss and give examples of white privilege.
- Definitions, discussion, and examples of minority groups and minority group status.
- Discuss and give examples of bigotry against minority groups.
- Use the Internet to display population data about racial and ethnic groups in the US.
- Immigration
- Define immigration.
- Define emigration.
- Define and discuss push factors.
- Define and discuss pull factors.
- Assimilation.
- Define and discuss cultural assimilation.
- Define and discuss structural assimilation.
- Identify and discuss models of assimilation.
- Standard Model.
- Pluralistic Model.
- Use the Internet to display statistical information concerning immigration into the US.
- Historical data.
- Current data.
- Future data.
- What is the projected population of each racial and ethnic group?
- Identify and differentiate among the various theories of race and ethnicity.
- Conquest
- Migration
- Colonialism and Empire
- Middle-man minorities
- Merton’s Typology of Bigotry
