Democracy and Diversity - Important Terms And Concepts
Category : 10th Class
Democracy and Diversity
Important Terms And Concepts
- Social Division: Division of the society on the basis of language, region, caste, colour or race and sex. It signifies linguistic and regional diversity.
- Social Differences: Social differences are the situations where people are discriminated against on the basis of social, economic and racial inequality. It gives way to social diversity which is different from society to society.
- Civil Rights Movement in the USA : A series of events and reform movements with the aim of abolishing legal, racial discrimination against African-Americans. Martin Luther King Jr. started the movement in 1954. It was based on the non-violent methods of civil disobedience against racially discriminatory laws and practices.
- African-American: Afro-Amrican, Black American or Black are the terms used to refer mainly to the descendents of Africans who were brought into America as slaves between 17th century and early 19th century.
- The Black Power: It was a movement started by black people in 1966 against racialism and the practice of partheid. It was a militant movement advocating even violence if necessary to end racism in the US.
- Overlapping Differences: Social Differences which overlap other differences are known as overlapping differences, e.g., difference between the Blacks and Whites became a social division in US because the Blacks tend to be poored homeless and discriminated against.
- Cross-Cutting Differences: If social differences cross-cut one another, it is known as cross-cutting differences. In another way in this situation groups that share a common interest on one issue are likely to be in different sides on a different issue.
- Homogenous Society: Homogenous society signifies absence of significant ethnic differences. It is a society that has similar kinds of people or inhabitants.
- Migrants: Anybody who shifts from one region or country to another region within a country or to another country for the purpose of work or other economic opportunities.
- Multi-Cultural Community: Social community formed on the basis of different cultures is known as the multi-cultural community. This happens mostly due to the practice of migration when people bring with them their own culture.
- Minority: It refers to communities who are less than half of the total population of the country. The idea of minority at national level is totally different from what it is at state level.
