Race, Ethnicity, Immigration

• concept of "races" originated in attempt to classify and rank groups. Impossible to sort people into categories based on the way they look. Many other visible difference appear to have evolved randomly, no connection to survival.
• Race and Ethnicity are socially constructed. Definitions change with time and place.
• Race: a group of people believed to share common descent, based on perceived innate physical similarities
• Ethnicity: a group of people with a common cultural identification, based on a combination of language, religion, ancestral origin, or traditional practices
• Endogamy: Marriage and reproduction within a distinct group
• Exogamy: marriage and reproduction outside one's distinct group
• Whites often do not identify themselves as a member of any racial or ethnic group.
• Minority group: racial or ethnic group that occupies a subordinate status in society. Status raises questions about rights and social justice- sources of conflict and change in society.
• Socialization: The social processes through which children develop an awareness of social norms. Socialization processes are particularly significant in infancy and childhood
• Race Socialization: specific verbal and nonverbal messages that older generations transmit to younger generations regarding the meaning and significance of race
• Resocialization: Process whereby people learn new rules and norms upon entering a new social world
• Desocialization: the process whereby people unlearn rules and norms upon exiting a particular social work
• Anticipatory socialization: The process where we learn about social role in advance of enacting the role