Understanding Management (MindTap Course List)
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Author: Richard L. Daft, Dorothy Marcic
Publisher: Cengage Learning
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Chapter 3, Problem 1AL
Summary Introduction
To critically think:
A situation where you could be a minority.
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A minority is where you fall into a category of a person who experiences a relative disadvantage/ difference in compared to a dominant social group. Example in a club majority may be drinkers but there will be a minority who does not drink/ like partying but would have attended the club due to certain reasons. These minorities can be based on different categories such as sex, ethnic culture, disability, race and etc.
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