Use LEFT and RIGHT arrow keys to navigate between flashcards;
Use UP and DOWN arrow keys to flip the card;
H to show hint;
A reads text to speech;
22 Cards in this Set
- Front
- Back
chance
|
those things not subject to human will, choice or efort
|
|
choice
|
the act of choosing from a wide range of possible behaviors or appearances
|
|
context
|
the larger historical circumstances and social forces that bring people together
the larger social setting in which racial and ethnic cate gories are recognized constructed an challenged |
|
minority groups
|
subgroups within a society that can be distinguisehed from members of the dominant group by identifying characteristics
|
|
assimilation
|
a process where racial and ethnic distictions between groups disappear
|
|
involuntary minority
|
group that was forced into a society by slavery conquest or colonization
|
|
melting pot assimilation
|
a process of cultural blending in which the group involved accept many new behaviors and values from one another
|
|
ideology
|
a set of beliefs that are not challengedor subjected to scrutiny by the people who hold them
|
|
stereotypes
|
exxagerated and inaccurate generalizations about members of an outgroup
|
|
discrimination
|
intentional or unintentional enequal treatment of individuals or groups on the basis of attribute unrelated to merit ability or past performance
|
|
selective perception
|
the process by which prejudiced person notice only those things that fit their sterotypes about an outgroup
|
|
indivual discrimination
|
any overt action by an individual that depreciates someone from the outgroup denies outgroup members opprotunities to participate or does violence to lives and property
|
|
stigma
|
an attribute defined as deeply discrediting because it overshadows all other attributes that a person might posses
|
|
mixed contacts
|
stigmatized normals are in the same social situation such as convo or not forced gathering
|
|
primary sex charactreistics
|
the anatomical traits essential to reproduction
|
|
secondary sex chara.
|
not essential to reproduction (voice, body hair breast developement) result from male and female sex characteristics
|
|
intersexed
|
having male and female characteristics
|
|
transexuals
|
have primary sex characteristics dont match the sex the percive to be or think they are
|
|
gender
|
a social distinction based on culturally concieved and learned ideas about the appropriate appearance behavior and mental emotional characteristcis for males and females
|
|
masulinity
|
physical behavioral mental and emotional traits believed to be male
|
|
feminity
|
physical behvioral mental emotional traits elieved to be of a women
|
|
gender polarization
|
organization of life around male-female distinction so that peoples sex is conected to everything like dress code social rules way of expressing emotion and sexualy desire
|