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The Challenges Of Cultural Diversity
What is a ‘minority’? Why do minorities need protection from the state?
Minority in sociological perspective is releatively a small and disadvantaged group. Extremely wealthy people are not usually referred to as minorities. In case, they are addressed for any special references, they are referred to as privileged minority.
Minorities need protection from government because of demographic dominance of majority as it attains political power in democratic pattern of election. In this view of the matter, the dominant majority may use the state machinery to suppress their religious and cultural institutions and it ultimately, will force monorities to abandon their distinctive identity. However, in statewise calculation, some minorities in India are in majority E.g. In Jammu and Kashmir, there is the Muslim majority and vast population in Uttar Pradesh, Kerala, Andra Pradesh, Karnataka and Rajasthan. This is the reason, Supreme Court of India has recently declared that Muslims are no more in minorities. Similarly, Nagaland, Misaram and Meghalaya are Christian majority states and they have a good share in the population of Goa and Kerala. Sikhs have also majority in Punjab state and Buddhists are in majority in Sikkim and Arunanchal Pradesh.
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What is socialisation process?
Community identity is delusive—now?
What is an odd fact of social life?
How are ascriptive or community identities universal?
What is brought in society by attachment to one's scripture identity?
What example of reflexivity and confession with regret have Japan put before the world?
What is a nation in simple terms and what it does for communities?
What is a state in sociological perspective?
Why is a nation easy to describe but hard to define?
How can a nation be distinguished from other kinds of communities?
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