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18 Cards in this Set
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How is race a reality?
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in the sense that different groups inherit distinctive physical traits
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How is race a myth?
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in the sense of one race being superior to another and of there being pure races
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Contrast race with ethnicity.
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race- inherited biological characteristics
ethnicity- cultural characteristics |
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How do members of the same ethnic group identify with one another?
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on the basis of common ancestry and cultural heritage
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Where do minority groups originate from?
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migration or expansion of political boundaries
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What factors can heighten or reduce ethnic identity?
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size, power, physical characteristics, amount of discrimination
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What is ethnic work?
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the process of constructing and maintaining ethnic identity
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Contrast prejudice with discrimination.
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prejudice is an attitude where as discrimination is an action
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Contrast individual and institutional discrimination.
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individual- negative treatment of one person by another
institutional- negative treatment that is built into social institutions |
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How is institutional discrimination unique? Give an example.
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Can occur w/o the perpetrator or the object knowing. Ex- health care
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How does the psychological theory of prejudice explain prejudice?
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stresses the authoritarian personality where frustration is taken out on scapegoats
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How do functionalists explain prejudice?
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stress the benefits and costs that come from discrimination
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How do conflict theorists explain prejudice?
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look at how groups in power exploit racial-ethnic division is order to control workers and maintain power
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How do symbolic interactionists explain prejudice?
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stress how labels create selective perception and self-fulfilling prophecies
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What ideology is selective perception most associated with?
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symbolic interactionists
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What are the six major patterns of minority relations?
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genocide, population transfer, internal colonialism, segregation, assimilation, multiculturalism
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What are the major racial-ethnic groups in the US?
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European Americans, Latinos, African Americans, Asian Americans, Native Americans
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What are the main issues that dominate US racial-ethnic relations?
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immigration, affirmative action, how to develop a true multicultural society
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