Ethicity And Gender

Question 1

What is a minority ethnic group?

Answer 1

A social group which shares a cultural identity which is different from that of the majority population of a society

Question 2

Example of minority group?

Answer 2

African-Caribbean, Indian Asain, Chinese ethic groups in Britain

Question 3

What does gender refer to?

Answer 3

The culturally created differences between men and women which are learnt thru socialisation

Question 4

Why aren’t they referred to as simply sex differences ?

Answer 4

Because that only refers to the biological differences between the sexes

Question 5

What does ethnicity refer to?

Answer 5

The shared culture of a social group which gives its member a common identity in some way different from that of other social groups