The concept of____has changed across cultures and eras, becoming less connected with ancestral and family ties and more concerned with superficial physical characteristics.
What is the concept of race?
200
Give an example of an ethnicity group whose members are mainly included in the racial category "white".
What is Irish, American, Russian, Italian?
200
He was sociologist who defined a minority group as "any group of people who, because of their physical/cultural characteristic, are singled out fro the others in the society they live for differential and unequal treatment.
Who was Louis Wirth?
200
When a societal system has developed with an embedded disenfranchisement of a group.
What is institutional discrimination?
200
A mixture of different cultures where each culture retains its own identity and yet adds to the "flavour" of the whole.
What is pluralism?
300
This is a far more common way of understanding racial categories.
What is social construction of race?
300
Ethnicity shares practices, values and beliefs. For example wedding ceremonies in different ethnicities in Indonesia that does its culture differently.
What does ethnicity commonly share?
300
_____ is a theory when the dominant group will displace their unfocused aggression onto a subordinate group.
What is the scapegoat theory
300
Prejudice refers to the biased thoughts, feelings and attitudes that someone holds about a group.
Racism is used to justify the belief that one racial category is somehow superior/ inferior to others.
What is the difference between prejudice and racism?
300
The process by which a minority group and a majority group combine to form a new group.
What is amalgamation?
400
Race is also _ ____ __ _____ that provides a source of identity; specific labels fall in and out of favour during different social eras.
What is a system of labelling?
400
Ethnic groups like the British includes citizens from a multiplicity of _____ ______: blacks, white, Asians, etc.
What is racial backgrounds?
400
1. Unequal treatment and less power of their lives.
2. Distinguished physical/ cultural traits (skin colour, language)
3. Involuntary membership in the group
4. Awareness of subordination
5. High rate of in- group marriage
What are the 5 predominant characteristics of a minority group?
400
People of which unthinkably and unknowingly practice sexism and other acts of discrimination.
What are unprejudiced discriminators?
400
The process by which a minority individual/group takes on the characteristics of the dominant culture.
What is assimilation?
500
A German sociologist who wrote that conflict can in fact help integrate and stabilise a society.
Who is Georg Simmel?
500
Ethnicity is __ ______ _____ that individuals & institutions use today – whether through the census, affirmative action initiatives, non-discrimination laws, or simply in personal day-to-day relations.
What is an identification method?
500
A predominant characteristic of a minority group.
What is lack of power?
500
People of whom actively make disparaging remarks or perpetuate hate crimes.
What are prejudiced discriminators?
500
When a dominant group forces a subordinate group to leave a certain area or even the country.