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Afrocentrism |
A viewpoint that emphasizes African culture and it's influence on Western civilization and U.S. black behavior. |
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Conflict Theory |
A macro level sociological perspective emphasizing conflict as an important influence and permanent feature of life. |
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Dillingham Flaw |
Any inaccurate comparison based on simplistic categorizations and anachronistic judgements. |
Trying to compare two that are not comparable because of time factor. Judging people for not adapting fast enough. (Flawed) |
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Dominant Group |
Any culturally or physically distinctive social grouping possessing economic, political, and social power and discriminating against a subordinate minority group. |
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Endogamy |
The tendency for people to marry only within their social group. |
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Ethnicity |
A cultural concept in which a large number of people who share learned or acquired traits and close social interaction regard themselves and are regarded by others as constituting a single group on that basis. |
People of similar or different races that consider themselves a group. Catholics, Christians |
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Ethnocentrism |
A view of things in what one's own group is the center (superior) of everything. |
Christians are better than other races because they have real God |
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Eurocentrism |
A viewpoint emphasizing Western civilization, history, literature, and other humanities. |
European curriculum in school |
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Functionalist theory |
A macro level sociological perspective emphasizing societal order and stability, with harmonious interdependent parts. (Functioning well) |
Whole world, what will make world at peace |
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Ingroup |
The group to which an individual belongs and feels loyal. |
Friends, family |
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Interactionist Theory |
A micro level sociological perspective emphasizing the shared Interpretations and Interaction patterns in everyday life. |
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Minority Group |
A culturally and physically distinctive group that experiences unequal treatment, an ascribed status, and a sense of shared identity and that practices endogamy. |
Blacks, women |
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Outgroup |
Any group to which an individual does not belong or feels loyal. |
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Race |
A categorization in which a large number of people sharing visible physical characteristics regard themselves or are regarded by others as a single group on that basis. |
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Racism |
False linking between biology and sociocultural behavior to assert the superiority one race. |
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Social construction of reality |
The process by which definitions of reality are socially created, objectified, internalized, and then taken for granted. |
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Symbolic Interaction |
Signs, symbols, gestures, and languages we use to communicate. |
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Acculturation |
The process by which a group changes its distinctive cultural traits to conform with those of the host society. |
Muslims learning American culture |
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Chain Migration |
A sequential flow of immigrants to a locality previously settled by friends, relatives, or other compatriots |
Migrating one after the other |
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Contact hypothesis |
Friendship with outgroup members corresponds to lower prejudice that group |
Guessing contact between two groups can have good outcome |
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Cultural determinism |
A theory that a groups culture determines its position in society and its achievements or lack thereof. |
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Cultural differentiation |
Differences between cultures that make one group distinguishable from another. |
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Cultural diffusion |
The spread of ideas, inventions, and practices from one culture to another. (Fusing together) |
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Culture |
The values, attitudes, customs, beliefs, and habits shared by members of a society. |
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Culture of poverty |
A controversial viewpoint arguing that the disorganization and pathology of lower-class culture are self-perpetuating through cultural transmission. |
Once poor always poor. |
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Culture shock |
Feelings of disorientation, anxiety, and a sense of being threatened when unpreparedly brought into contact with another culture. |
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Ethclass |
A social group classification based on a combination of race, religion, social class, and region residence. |
Where you fall in class system by look |
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Ethnogenesis |
A process in which immigrants hold onto some homeland values, adapt others, and adopt some values of the host country. |
What makes up your genes (African-American) |
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Internal-colonialism theory |
A concept explaining the experiences of blacks, Hispanics, and Native Americans in terms of economic exploitation and rigid stratification. |
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Linguistic Relativity |
The recognition that different languages dissect and present reality differently. |
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Norms |
The internalized rules of conduct that embody the fundamental expectations of society. |
What to expect from everyday life |
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Paternalism |
A condescending treatment of adults, managing and regulating their affairs as a father would handle his childhood affairs. |
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Power Differential Theory |
The theory that intergroup relations depend on the relative power of the migrant group and the indigenous group. |
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Social Class |
A categorization designating people's places in the stratification hierarchy on the basis of similarities in income, property, power, status, and lifestyle. |
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Thomas theorem |
An observation that if people define situations as real, the situations become real in their consequences. |
People often associate terrorists with a certain minority group. Theory. |
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Action-orientation level of prejudice |
A positive or negative predisposition to engage in discriminatory behavior toward members of a particular group. |
Taking action against someone |
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Affirmative Action |
Deliberate efforts to improve minority representation, as well as their economic and educational opportunities. |
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De facto segregation |
Physical separation of a group that is entrenched in customs and practices. |
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De jure segregation |
Physical separation of a group that is established by law. (Jury duty) |
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Discrimination |
Differential and unequal treatment of other groups of people, usually along race, religious, or ethnic lines. |
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Displaced Aggression |
Hostility directed against a powerless group rather than against the more powerful cause of the feelings of hostility. |
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Emotional Level of Prejudice |
The feelings aroused in a group by another racial or ethnic group. |
Emotions block good judgement towards group |
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Ethnophaulism |
A derogatory word or expression used to describe or refer to a racial or ethnic group. |
Ethno |
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Ethnoviolence |
Behavior ranging from verbal harassment and threats to murder against people targeted solely because of their race, religion, ethnicity, or sexual orientation. |
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Institutional Discrimination |
Unequal treatment of subordinate groups inherit in the ongoing operations of society's institutions. |
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Jigsaw classroom |
Use of independent, cooperative learning groups as a means to teach as well as reduce prejudice. |
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Jim Crow Laws |
Southern-state segregation laws, passed in the 1890's and early 1900's; covered use of all public facilities, including schools, restaurants, transportation, waiting rooms, rest rooms, drinking fountains, and parks. |
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Prejudice |
A system of negative beliefs, feelings, and action orientations regarding a certain group or groups of people. |
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Racial Profiling |
Action initiated on the erroneous presumption that individuals of a particular group are more likely to engage in illegal activity than individuals of other groups. |
Muslims on a plane |
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Scapegoating |
Placing blame on other's for something that is not their fault. |
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Stereotype |
An oversimplified generalization attributing certain traits or characteristics to any person in a group without regard to individual differences. |
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Accommodation Theory |
A tendency to accept the situation as it exists, without seeking to change it or make others conform, pluralism. |
Accommodate to others views |
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Amalgamation theory |
The biological and cultural blending of two or more groups of people into a distinct new type; melting pot. |
Game, coming together |
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Anglo-conformity |
A behavioral adherence to the established white Anglo-Saxon Protestant prototype; what many ethnocentric US residents mean by assimilation |
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