Section 1
Section 2
Vocabulary
Section 3
Section 4
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FIVE!
How many key features does minority have?
100
The blending or fusing of minority groups into the dominant society.
What is assimilation?
100
People typically unemployed who came from families that have been poor for generations.
What is underclass?
100
A criminal act motivated by prejudice.
What is hate crime?
100
Unfair practices that grow out of common behaviors and attitudes and that are a part of the structure of a society.
What is institutionalized discrimination?
200
1)A minority has distinctive physical or cultural characteristics that can be used to separate it from the majority. Or 2)The minority is dominated by the majority. Or 3)Minority traits are often believed by the dominant majority to be inferior. Or 4)Members of the minority have a common sense of identity, with strong group loyalty. Or 5)The majority determines who belongs to the minority through ascribed status.
What is one of the FIVE key features of minority?
200
Minority forced either to move to a remote location or to leave entirely the territory controlled be the majority.
What is population transfer?
200
Desire of a group to maintain some sense of identity separate from the dominant group.
What is cultural pluralism?
200
THREE!
What is the number of perspectives?
200
African Americans.
What is the largest racial minority group in the U.S.?
300
Yes, physical characteristics.
Are there some physical characteristics superior?
300
De jure is based on the law, while de facto is based on everyday practices.
What is the difference between De jure segregation and De facto segregation?
300
A group identified by cultural, religious, or national characteristics.
What is ethnic minority?
300
An expectation that leads to behavior that causes the expectation to become reality.
What is self-fulfilling prophecy?
300
Asian Americans.
What takes up a total of 4% of the U.S. population?
400
Because members of ethnic minorities do not measure up to the majority’s conception of appropriate ways of behaving.
Why are ethnic minorities seen as inferior?
400
Subjugation.
What is the most common pattern of conflict?
400
An extreme form of prejudice that assumes superiority of one group over others.
What is racism?
400
A majority uses prejudice and discrimination as weapons of power to control a minority.
What is the theory of conflict perspective?
400
The Latinos.
What is the fastest growing minority in the U.S.?
500
1945
What is the birth year of Louis Wirth?
500
Genocide, population transfer, and subjugation.
What are the 3 basic patterns of conflict?
500
People sharing certain inheritance physical characteristics that are considered important within a society.
What is race?
500
Discrimination deals with the whole group while prejudice talks about the group and individual members inside it.
How is discrimination different from prejudice?
500
White ethnics.
What ethnic group gained the undeserved rep. of being conservative, racist, and being pro-war?
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