Minority may refer to:
Politics
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Minority government, formed when a political party does not have a majority of overall seats in parliament
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Minority leader, in American politics, the floor leader of the second largest caucus in a legislative body
Society
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Minor (law)
In law, a minor is someone under a certain age, usually the age of majority, which demarcates an underage individual from legal adulthood. The age of majority depends upon jurisdiction and application, but it is commonly 18. ''Minor'' may al ...
, legal category of people under the age of majority
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Age of majority
The age of majority is the threshold of legal adulthood as recognized or declared in law. It is the moment when minors cease to be considered such and assume legal control over their persons, actions, and decisions, thus terminating the contr ...
, the threshold of adulthood as recognized or declared in law
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Legal age Legal age or codified age refers to age at which a person may legally engage in a certain activity. Most frequently, this is the age of majority (also known as the "age of maturity"), the threshold of adulthood as recognized in law.
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, age at which a person may legally engage in a certain activity
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Minority group
The term 'minority group' has different usages depending on the context. According to its common usage, a minority group can simply be understood in terms of demographic sizes within a population: i.e. a group in society with the least number o ...
, a category of people differentiated from the social majority (e.g. ethnic minority)
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Sexual minority
A sexual minority is a group whose sexual identity, orientation or practices differ from the majority of the surrounding society. Primarily used to refer to lesbian, gay, bisexual, or non-heterosexual individuals, it can also refer to transge ...
, a group whose sexual identity, orientation or practices differ from the majority of society
Music
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"Minority" (Gigi Gryce song), a 1953 jazz standard
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"Minority" (Green Day song), a 2000 punk rock song
* "Minority", a song by the Subhumans from their 1983 album ''
The Day the Country Died
''The Day the Country Died'' is the debut studio album by English anarcho-punk band Subhumans. It was recorded in five days in June 1982 and was released in January 1983 through Spiderleg Records. The album was later re-released via Bluurg, t ...
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Other uses
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Minority (philosophy)
Minority (french: minorité) is a philosophical concept developed by Gilles Deleuze and Félix Guattari in their books ''Kafka: Towards a Minor Literature'' (1975), ''A Thousand Plateaus'' (1980), and elsewhere. In these texts, they criticize th ...
, concept coined by philosopher Gilles Deleuze and Félix Guattari
See also
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Majority (disambiguation)
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Minority Party (disambiguation)
A two-party system is a political party system in which two major political parties consistently dominate the political landscape. At any point in time, one of the two parties typically holds a majority in the legislature and is usually referr ...
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Minority Report (disambiguation)
Minority Report may refer to:
* Minority report (Poor Law), published by the UK Royal Commission on the Poor Laws and Relief of Distress 1905–09
* "Minority Report", a 1949 science fiction short story by Theodore Sturgeon
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Minority rights
Minority rights are the normal individual rights as applied to members of racial, ethnic, class, religious, linguistic or gender and sexual minorities, and also the collective rights accorded to any minority group.
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, individual and collective rights of minority groups
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Ethnic group, an ethnicity
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Minority influence
Minority influence, a form of social influence, takes place when a member of a minority group influences the majority to accept the minority's beliefs or behavior. This occurs when a small group or an individual acts as an agent of social change by ...
, a form of social influence
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Minority language
A minority language is a language spoken by a minority of the population of a territory. Such people are termed linguistic minorities or language minorities. With a total number of 196 sovereign states recognized internationally (as of 2019) a ...
, a language spoken by a minority of the population
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Minority-serving institution, a term in American higher education
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Minority business enterprise
Minority business enterprise (MBE) is an American designation for businesses which are at least 51% owned, operated and controlled on a daily basis by one or more (in combination) American citizens of the following ethnic minority and/or gender (e ...
, American business term
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Minority interest
In accounting, minority interest (or non-controlling interest) is the portion of a subsidiary corporation's stock that is not owned by the parent corporation. The magnitude of the minority interest in the subsidiary company is generally less than 5 ...
, in business
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Majority minority
A majority-minority or minority-majority area is a term used to refer to a subdivision in which one or more racial, ethnic, and/or religious minorities (relative to the whole country's population) make up a majority of the local population.
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(American), where one or more racial/ethnic minorities make up a majority of population
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Visible minority
A visible minority () is defined by the Government of Canada as "persons, other than aboriginal peoples, who are non-Caucasian in race or non-white in colour". The term is used primarily as a demographic category by Statistics Canada, in connect ...
(Canadian), persons, other than aboriginal peoples, who are non-Caucasian in race or non-white in colour
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