Vocabulary
Minority groups abandon their features and become absorbed in dominant culture.
What is assimilation?
The assumption of the supremacy of European Americans and their values and traditions.
What is Eurocentricity?
Unrecognized prejudices that affect behavior.
What is aversive racism?
A Social arrangements of dominance which flows to certain groups whether or not it is earned.
What is privilege?
Treating people as if they were objects, as if they were nothing more than the attributes they display.
What is objectification?
The condition of being different or distinct.
What is diversity?
The systematic, institutionalized mistreatment of one group of people by another for whatever reason.
What is oppression?
An adherent of the doctrine of equal political, economic, and legal rights for all human beings.
What is egalitarian?
The use of color and other visible characteristics as subordinating factors.
What is overt racism?
The privileging and assignment of high status to the wealth adn financially better-off individuals and their culture and the stigmatization and disadvantaging of poor and working-class people and their culture simply because of relative wealth.
Membership in a subgroup within an environment dominated by another culture.
What is Ethnicity?
nA hierarchical system of social organization in which structures of power, value, and culture are male-dominated.
What is patriarchy?
To combine or lump together (verbs); something composed of different elements
What is aggregate?
A position in society. Individuals occupy multiple statuses simultaneously such as occupational, kinship, and educational attainment.
What is status?
Women and men who advocate equality between the sexes and the value of people who struggle to combat the sexism in our society.
What are feminists?
Societies are typically arranged in this fashion where the hierarchy is age, male and arbitrary characteristics.
What is social dominance theory?
The belief that advancement is based solely on ability or achievement.
What is meritocracy?
To divide into two parts and to see those parts are mutually exclusive.
What is dichotomize?
A concept first offered by WEB DuBois to describe seeing oneself (or members of one's group) through the eyes of a critical, dominant group member.
What is double consciousness?
The process by which we learn socially appropriate roles, including the many pressures, rewards, punishments that compel us to conform to social expression.
What is socialization?
Accepting socially assigned characteristics and beliefs as part of one's own thinking.
What is internalize?
The subordination of certain groups of people and the assumption of their inferiority.
What is racism?
Racially discriminatory laws, social institutions, behavior patterns, language, cultural viewpoints, and thought patterns that required segregation of the races in all aspects of life in order to subordinate African Americans.
What is Jim Crow?
Dominating or ruling. A hegemonic ideology is a belief that it pervasive in a culture.
What is hegemonic?
The belief in the importance of hard word and productivity and the corresponding faith this behavior will be rewarded appropriately.
What is the Protestant Work Ethic?