Hist 105 Ethnicity & Diversity In The Modern World

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What does minority group mean?

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Indicate the group's relative power and status in a society.

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How many characteristics does a minority group have?

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5

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What are the 5 characteristics of a minority group?

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1. group receives unequal treatment as a group.
2. The group is easily I.D.'d because of distinguishing physical or culural chara. that are held in low esteem.
3. The group deels a sense of group identity, that each of them shares something in common with the other members.
4. Membership in the minority group has ascribed status: one is born into it.
5. Group members practice endogamy: they tend to marry within their group, either by choice or by necessity, because of their social isolation.

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What does endogamy mean?

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Group members tend to marry within their group, either by choice or by necessity, because of their social isolation.

Front 5

What is race?

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Categorization in which a large nmber of people sharing visible biological characteristics regard themselves or are regarded by other as a single group on that basis.

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What is racism?

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Linking the biological conditions of a human with alleged sociocultural capabilities and behavior to assert the superiority of one race.

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When people belive that one race is superior to another because of economic advantages or specific achievements.. what is this called?

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Racism

Front 8

What is a racist?

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When a person believes that one race is superior to another because of economic advantages or specific achievements.

Front 9

Does the social construction of race vary by culture and in history?

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yes

Front 10

The ______ _____ has had a rigid racial classification.

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United States

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What are the two classifications the U.S. use to have in describing race?

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White & Non-White

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What is one way to describe what sociocultrual capabilities mean?

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Intelllectual & behavorial differences.

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Does race deal with visible physical characteristics?

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yes

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What is ethnicity?

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Shared cultural traits and/or national orgin.

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Can people be of different races but still be members of the sam ethnic group?

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Yes. Example Hispanica.

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The selfish use of the labor of others for profit at their expense is?

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Exploitation.

Front 17

What is xenophobia?

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The irrational fear of or contempt for strangers or foreigners.

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A tendency to judge other cultures or subcultures by the standard of one's own _______ is ethnocentrism.

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Culture

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What is eurocentrism?

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A viewpoint emphasizing Western civilization, history, literature, and other humanitites.

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What theory holds that ingroup members enhance their self-image by considering their group better than others?

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Social Identity Theory

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What is the Dillingham flaw?

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Any inaccurate comparison based on simplistic categorizations and anachronistic judgments.

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How can an ethnocentric attitude not be deliberate?

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Because it is an outgrowth of growing up and living within a familiar environment.

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Can ethnocentrism be overcome?

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Yes if it is recognized for the bias it is.

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Religious chauvinism and ethnocentrism blended in the _____ ____ ?

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Middle Ages

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The religious chauvinism and ethnocentrism blend caused the crusaders to do what?

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The Crusaders, spurred on by their beliefs, considered it their duty to free the Holy Land from the control of the "infidels".

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What is a view of the customs and beliefs of other peoples within the context of their culture rather than one's own?

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Cultural relativism.

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What is it called when behavior (Verbal harassment thru murder) that is based on people because of their race, religion, ethnicity, or sexual orientation?

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Ethnoviolence

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What uses an inaccurate comparison based on simplistic categorizations and anachronistic judgements?

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The Dillingham Flaw.

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Does it matter what size a group has to be to be considered a minority group?

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No.

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What group is biologically similar?

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Racial.

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What group shares a learned cultural heritage?

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Ethnic.

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Does intergroup relations have dynamic and continually changing relations?

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Yes.

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What is one way the majority and minority groups have negative feelings toward the other?

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In the case of jobs/ food/ housing.
The people on the lower scale of the majority end up competing with the minority for these.

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When does ethnic-group identity exist?

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When individuals choose to emphasize cultural or national ties as the basis for their primary social interactions and sense of self.

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What are some of the ways a dominant group may react to minority people?

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Hostility, indifference, welcoming tolerance, or condescension.

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When does the dominant group feel threatened by the minority group?

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When the minority group's population increases.

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Why does the dominant group feel threatened when the minority group's population increase?

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It threatens the majoritiess monoply on jobs and other claims to privileged cultural resources.

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Will the majority take action against the minorities when they feel threatened?

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Yes.

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A state in which minorities can maintain their distinctive subcultures and simultaneously interact with relative equality in the larger society is called what?

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Pluralism

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Assimilation is also called what?

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Majority-conformity theory

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If members of racial or ethnic minorities are able to function within a society without indicating any marked cultural, social, or personal differences from the people of the majority group is called what?

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Assimilation
(majority-conformity theory)

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A minority response to prejudice and discrimination is __________.

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Acceptance

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Why do minorities sometime respond to prejudice and discrimination with acceptance?

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Their response is based on powerlessness, fear for personal safety, desire for economic security, or split-labor-market theory fatalism.

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What is the accomodation (pluralistic) theory?

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When minorities accept the situation as it exists, without seeking to change it or make others conform.

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Americanization movement is the effort to have ethnic group quickly give up their _______ ______ and adopt those of the dominant U.S. group.

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cultural traits

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A common consequence of prejudice and discrimination is a ________ ____ _____.

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Negative self-image

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What are the consequences of a negative self-image?

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Negative self-image, a vicious-circle phenomenon, marginality.

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The middleman minorities is built on what theory?

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Marginality.

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What are middleman minorities?

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A group occupying an intermediate occupational position in trade or commerce between the top and bottom strata.