Sociology 3410 Final: Race & Power

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Dennis Wrong's Typology of Power

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-the power is the ability of groups and individuals to maintain particular outcomes and goals against the wishes of other individuals and groups. Which means that power usually involves conflict.
-all power is a form of influence

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Unintended Influence

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-(Not power)
-we affect other people and we don't mean to, we are always affecting other just by being.

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Intended Influence

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-All power is a from of intended

-Coercion→force, trying to attain a particular outcome by forcing what you want people to do.

-The go to form, very effective, threat of violence works

-Slavery was based on coercion, so is Genocide

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Manipulation

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Getting someone to do something for you, without them knowing it.

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Authority

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encompasses coercion, but the individual or group that is being coerced believe that the power holder has a right to exercise that coercion. The difference between authority and coercion.

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Hegemony

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•A form of power where the dominant group is so dominant that it shapes reality, so much that that reality becomes “Common Sense.”
•People are trained to think of what “blackness” means.

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Three Types of MInority Groups

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1. Traditional MInority Groups
2. Model Minority Groups
3. MIddleman Minority Group

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1. Traditional Minority Groups

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One that is indigenous to a particular geographic location or society, they have been living there for a long time

In America: Native Americans, African Americans, Latinos

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2. Model MInority Groups

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A minority group that attains outstanding socioeconomic success, measured in terms of usual measures: income, wealth, employment in prestigious occupations, level of poverty

Positive: society generally regards them very positively because of their performance Ex: Chinese, Indians, Japanese

-Have overcome assumptions about how groups are supposed to perform in society.
-If they do well and have skills, over time they will do very well.
-If they have low levels of education and are disliked by Americans they experience trouble.
-Model minority says that blacks are inferior and that's why they don't do well.
-Encourage their children to work in disciplines like medicine or law.

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3. Middleman Minority Group

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A minority group that attains upward mobility usually through the ownership of small businesses and usually these businesses are concentrated in retailing and sometimes banking. Ex: first generation koreans
•In terms of social status they are in between

•African Americans have become a reference point in which other minority groups are measured.
-Many immigrants try to conceive upward mobility as becoming white
-White people living in urban areas were looking to leave to go to suburbs, they sold their businesses to Koreans.

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Persuasion

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A form of power where you convince people to behave in particular ways