Soci 205 Chapter 9

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race

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a group of people with inherited physical characteristics that distinguish it from another group

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genocide

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the attempt to destroy a group of people because of their presumed race or ethnicity

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ethnicity

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cultural characteristics
-people who identify with one another on the basis of common ancestry and cultural heritage

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minority group

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people who are singled out for unequal treatment and who regard themselves as objects of collective discrimination

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dominant group

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have the great power, privileges, and social status

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How do groups become a minority?

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through the expansion of political boundaries and by migration

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ethnic work

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refer to the way people construct their ethnicity. For people who have a strong ethnic identity, this means enhancing and maintaining their group's distinctions. For people who have don't a firm ethnic identity, this means attempts to recover ethnic heritage

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melting pot

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what the U.S. is
most of its groups quietly blending into a sort of ethnic stew

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discrimination

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is an action-unfair treatment directed against someone

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racism

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when the basis of discrimination is someone's perception of race

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prejudice

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a prejudging of some sort, usually in a negative way
-there is also positive prejudice, which exaggerates the virtues of a group

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What did Blee find out?

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some racism is not the cause of their joining, but the result of their membership

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What does Hartley's study suggest?

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that prejudice does not depend on a negative experience with others. It also reveals that people who are prejudiced against one group, are prejudiced against another

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individual discrimination

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the negative treatment of one person by another

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institutional discrimination

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to see how discrimination is woven into the fabric of society

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scapegoat

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often a racial, ethnic, or religious minority that they unfairly blame for their troubles, becomes a target on which they vent their frustrations

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authoritarian personality

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-Adorno concluded that highly prejudiced people are insecure conformists
-they have deep respect for authority and are submissive to superiors
-believe that things are either right or wrong

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How do functionalists view prejudice?

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-shaped by the social environment
-creates in-group solidarity

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How do conflict theorists view prejudice?

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-also analyze hoe groups are pitted against one another, but they focus on how this arrangement benefits those in power

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reserve labor force

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the capitalist draw on the unemployed to expand production during economic booms, and when the economy contracts, these workers become unemployed

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How can capitalists hold workers' wages down?

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-keep workers insecure
-encouraging and exploiting racial-ethnic divisions

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split labor market

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division of workers along racial-ethnic and gender lines

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How do symbolic interactionists view prejudice?

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examine how labels affect perception and create prejudice

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selective perception

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they lead us to see things while they blind us to others

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self-fulfilling prophecy

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not only justify prejudice, but even produce the behavior of the stereotype

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compartmentalize

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to separate their acts form their sense of being good and moral people

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population transfer

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Indirect: achieved by making life so unbearable for members of a minority that the leave voluntary
Direct: when a dominant group expels a minority

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internal colonialism

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a country's dominant group exploits minority groups for economic advantage

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segregation

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the separation of racial or ethnic groups
-allows the dominant group to maintain social distance from the minority

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assimilation

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the process by which a minority group is absorbed into the mainstream culture
Forced: dominant group refuses to allow the minority to practice its religion, speak its language, or follow its customs
Permissible: allows the minority group to adopt the dominant group's patters in its own way and its own speed

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multiculturalism/pluralism

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permits or even encourages racial and ethnic variation
-minority groups are able to maintain their identities, yet participate freely in the country's social institutions

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WASP's

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white anglo saxon protestants

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white ethnics

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immigrants from Europe whose language and other customs differed from theirs

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Plessy v. Ferguson

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separate but equal

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Civil Rights Act of 1964

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made it illegal to discriminate in public places

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Voting Rights Act of 1965

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banning fraudulent literacy tests that the Southern states used to keep blacks from voting

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rising expectations

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they believe better conditions will soon follow

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pan-Indianism

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common elements that run through Native American cultures is an attempt to develop an identity that goes beyond the tribe