Race, Ethnicity, Gender, and Class- Vantage Learning Platform

The Sociology of Group Conflict and Change

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• Tells an overarching story about dominant-minority relations in the U.S. and how minority groups are inseparable from the larger American experience.
• While the primary focus is race and ethnicity, the text also includes chapters on the sociology of gender and sexual minorities.
• In addition, intersectional perspectives throughout examine how race/ethnicity combine with other statuses to produce different forms of privilege and oppression.
• Examines a diversity of experiences both across minority groups, as well as within them.
• Opening vignettes and “Narrative Portraits” convey the thoughts and experiences of immigrants, writers and artists, politicians, scholars, racists, oppressed people, and other Americans who have witnessed intergroup relations from different perspectives.
• Comparative Focus boxes, and a separate chapter called “Dominant-Minority Relations in Cross-National Perspective,” look at group relations in societies outside the United States.
• Applying Concepts activities provide an opportunity to use key ideas in new ways.