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Theories of Race and Ethnicity

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&NewLine;<&sol;script>&NewLine;<&sol;div>&NewLine;<p align&equals;"justify">Issues of race and ethnicity are very common in every culture&comma; nation&comma; country and groups&period; It can be analyzed through three main sociological perspectives&colon; functionalism&comma; conflict theory&comma; and symbolic interactionism&NewLine;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<h2 align&equals;"justify">Functionalism<&sol;h2>&NewLine;<p align&equals;"justify">According to functionalism&comma; ethnic and racial disproportion should have performed a crucial outcome just in order to have existence as long as they are having&period; This concept is very problematic&period; How is that possible that discrimination and racism&nbsp&semi;&nbsp&semi; can contribute positively to a society&quest; So as a functionalist he might see at &OpenCurlyDoubleQuote;functions” and &OpenCurlyDoubleQuote;dysfunctions” that are actually caused by racial disproportion&period; Nash &lpar;1964&rpar; based his argument that how racism is beneficial for the supreme group&comma; for example&comma; proposing that racism simply provide a rationale for unequal society&period; Just take example of how slave owners give grounds for slavery in the South&comma; by believing that black people were literally inferior to white and literally preferred black people for slavery&period; There is one more way to apply this functionalist view to racism just to discuss that how racism can actually contribute in a positive way to the overall functioning of&nbsp&semi; the society by making stronger the bonds between group members through the banish of the out-group members&period; Just focus on how a community can increase agreement by rejecting to allow the access of outsiders&period; On the other way&comma; Rose &lpar;1951&rpar; gave his suggestion that dysfunctions kindred with racism that includes the nonsuccess to take benefit of expertise in the defeated group&period;so that a society must turn aside from other objectives and the effort and time needed to keep false built racial limitations&period; Consider that how much time effort&comma; money just went towards keeping unequal and separate educational systems preceding the civil rights movement &lpar;Lumen&comma; 2018&rpar;&period;&NewLine;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<h2 align&equals;"justify">Conflict Theory<&sol;h2>&NewLine;<p align&equals;"justify">Conflict theories are applicable for the inequalities in social class&comma; gender&comma; race&comma; ethnicity and education&period; The perspective of the conflict theory is exist in the world history and examination is done in numerous ways covering the past and present struggles among white&comma; who are the ruling class&comma; ethnic minorities and racial groups&comma; observing the particular conflict&comma; which have risen at the time when a dominant group started to perceive the minority group as a threat&period; In 19th century&comma; black Americans were rising their power after Civil War&comma; which resulted in the Jim Crow Laws’ draconian&comma; which strictly restricted the black social and political power&period; For instance&comma; Vivien Thomas &lpar;1910–1985&rpar;&comma; was the black surgical-technician&comma; and he helped in development of groundbreaking techniques in surgeries&comma; which saves many lives of the &OpenCurlyDoubleQuote;blue babies”&comma; despite a fact of his surgical experiments implications were complicated at that time&period; It has been suggested that effects of the class&comma; race&comma; sexual orientation&comma; gender&comma; and others cannot be separated&period; Race bring both negative and positive impact on the society&period; It is necessary to consider both&comma; depends on the situation and on the society &lpar;Murji&comma; and Solomos&comma; 2015&rpar;&period;&NewLine;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<h2 align&equals;"justify">Interactionism<&sol;h2>&NewLine;<p align&equals;"justify">For the interactionist&comma; race and ethnicity provides the impressive symbols of spring identity&period; Primarily&comma; some interactionist show the symbols of racism not by themselves&comma; but as the guide&period; There is a famous interactionist named Herbert Blumer &lpar;1958&rpar; suggested that that preconception of race is formulates by proper interactions among leading members of the groups&period; So without these proper interactions&comma; individuals that are in the leading group would not hold their racist views &period;And these interactions bestowed to an abstract image of the inferior group that allows the leading group to reinforce its view of the inferior group&comma; and maintains the status quo&period; Example of this may be some individual whose views about some particular group are actually based on pictures transferred in popular social media&comma; and those are actually unquestionably approved because the individual has never ever personally met the member of that particular group&period; One more way to register the interactionist view is to see that how people describe the race of others and their own races &period;Here discussed in relation to the social structure of race&comma; since few people claim that a white identity have greater skin pigmentation than other people who themselves claim a black identity&comma; how did they actually define themselves as white or black&quest; &lpar;Forster&comma; Hitchcock&comma; and Lyimo&comma; 2000&rpar;&period;&NewLine;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<h2 align&equals;"justify">Culture of Prejudice<&sol;h2>&NewLine;<p align&equals;"justify">Culture of prejudice actually refers to the concept that prejudice is inserted in our own culture&period; We all grow up neighboring by pictures of stereotypes and natural expressions of prejudice and racism&period; Focus on the casually racist pictures on shopping store shelves or the casual stereotypes that in actually filling the famous movies and tv commercials&period; Nowadays&comma; it is so easy to see that how someone lives in the Northeastern States&comma; who might know no Mexican personally&comma; might also get a stereotyped intuition from such type of sources as Taco Bell’s talking Chihuahua&period;&nbsp&semi; As we are all being exposed to such images and feelings&comma; it is totally impossible to understand to what length they have actually influenced our own thought processes &lpar;Back&comma; and Solomos&comma; 2013&rpar;&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p align&equals;"justify">Some views of racial study the dominant role and inferior groups play its role to create a sturdy social composition&period; Conflict concepts consider power disparities and clash between different ethnic and racial groups&period; Interactionists also see ethnicity and race as very important spring of personal identity and social symbolism&period; The theory of culture of prejudice analyzes that every individual is subject to stereotypes that are imbedded in their culture&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<h2 align&equals;"justify">References<&sol;h2>&NewLine;<p>Back&comma; L&period; and Solomos&comma; J&period;&comma; 2013&period; Theories of race and racism&colon; A reader&period; Routledge&period;<br &sol;>&NewLine;Forster&comma; P&period;G&period;&comma; Hitchcock&comma; M&period; and Lyimo&comma; F&period;F&period;&comma; 2000&period; Theories of Race and Ethnicity&period; In Race and Ethnicity in East Africa &lpar;pp&period; 16-34&rpar;&period; Palgrave Macmillan&comma; London&period;<br &sol;>&NewLine;Lumen&comma; 2018&period; Theories of Race and Ethnicity&period; &lbrack;Online&rsqb;&comma; Available at&colon; <a href&equals;"https&colon;&sol;&sol;courses&period;lumenlearning&period;com&sol;sociology&sol;chapter&sol;theories-of-race-and-ethnicity&sol;">https&colon;&sol;&sol;courses&period;lumenlearning&period;com&sol;sociology&sol;chapter&sol;theories-of-race-and-ethnicity&sol;<&sol;a>&comma; &lbrack;Accessed on&colon; 30th April&comma; 2018&rsqb;&period; <br &sol;>&NewLine;Murji&comma; K&period; and Solomos&comma; J&period; eds&period;&comma; 2015&period; Theories of Race and Ethnicity&period; Cambridge University Press&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p align&equals;"justify">&NewLine;<&excl;--CusAds0-->&NewLine;<div style&equals;"font-size&colon; 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