Chapter 14 Learning Objectives and Key Concepts

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
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