Social Interaction and the Minority-Majority Earnings Inequality: Why Being a Minority Hurts But Being a Big Minority Hurts More

Minority on Minority Discrimination: Impact of Majority Social Norm Perception

Most of the research on prejudice has focused on majority discrimination of minority group members, but few have investigated minority to minority prejudice. This experiment studied minority group member discrimination against members of other minority groups when asked to perform activities with a group composed of either all racial majority (White) individuals, all racial minority individuals...

Testing a model of minority identity achievement, identity affirmation, and psychological well-being among ethnic minority and sexual minority individuals.

How is social identity related to psychological well-being among minority individuals? Drawing on developmental models of identity formation (e.g., Erikson, 1968) and on Social Identity Theory (Tajfel & Turner, 1979), we tested a conceptual model examining links between two key aspects of social identity and psychological well-being. We proposed that the association between identity achievement...

Minority Challenge of Majority

minority, majority and their legitimacy philosophy

in this article the historical expression by martyr zaidebn e-ali on negation of forbidden majority has been described. also the majority and minority issue in the quran has been compared with current majority and minority in the political sciences. it seems that in the quran the majority which does not apply reason and does not know is the majority of opponents of prophets. thus, the majority ...

A Male's Experience of Being a Gender Minority

During the academic year 2003-04 I had the great privilege of being a fellow at Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study (at Harvard University). In this essay, I will confine myself to one aspect of that great experience: being a male in an academic institute that is directed by women and in which women are in large majority. First, the basic statistics. During that period, the institute hosted ...