Chapter 14
Learning Objectives
- Understand how political scientists think about identity categories like race, ethnicity, and gender.
- Understand how these categories are sometimes used as bases for discrimination and inequality.
- Understand how political scientists think about empowerment of groups and individuals.
- Learn major theories about the causes of the empowerment of different groups.
Key Concepts
- Race and Ethnicity
- Gender
- Sexual Orientation
- Disentangling Race and Ethnicity
- Discrimination Based on Race and Ethnicity
- Gender Discrimination
- Empowerment of Women and Minority Groups