This assignment reinforces information in your textbook and concepts presented in this unit. Your responses should be thorough, well-conceived college-level responses that are grammatically correct. Write your answers in complete sentences. Please be sure to write your answers in your words.
- Define both race and ethnicity.
- Define both stereotypes and discrimination.
- Provide a short summary of each of the theories surrounding Prejudice including: Scapegoat Theory, Authoritarian Personality Theory, Culture Theory and Conflict Theory.
- Describe patterns of interaction among racial and ethnic categories in a society in terms of four models: pluralism, assimilation, segregation, and genocide.
- Give examples of inequality in both Race and Ethnicity in the United States.
- Define age stratification.
- What do you feel are the implications of age stratification?
- Provide a short summary of the transitions and challenges of aging such as; finding meaning, social isolation, retirement, caregiving, and ageism.