Race/Ethnicity
Prejudice/Discrimination
Theories
Intergroup Relations
Subordinate Groups
100
Superficial physical differences that a particular society considers significant (not biologically defined)
What is race?
100
The believe, thought, feelings, someone holds about a group.
What is prejudice?
100
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How many main theories are there of race and ethnicity?
100
Any of the following acts committed with intent to destroy, in whole or in part, a national, ethnical, racial or religious group, as such: killing members of the group; causing serious bodily or mental harm to members of the group; deliberately inflicting on the group conditions of life calculated to bring about its physical destruction in whole or in part ; imposing measures intended to prevent births within the group; [and] forcibly transferring children of the group to another group
What is genocide?
100
Native Americans
Which is the only subordinate group that are not immigrants?
200
A sharedculture.
What is ethnicity?
200
Irish Americans celebrate St Patricks day; however, other celebrations throughout the year may have been forgotten.
Give an example of assimilation.
200
Unequal treatment, involuntary membership of the group, awareness of subordination, high-rate in group marriage, and distinguished by physical/cultural traits
What are the characteristics of minority groups?
300
Any group of people who, because of their physical or cultural characteristics, are singled out from the others in the society in which they live for differential and unequal treatment, and who therefore regard themselves as objects of collective discrimination.
What is a subordinate/minority group?
300
Name calling, social avoidance, telling belittling jokes, ridicule, and social exclusion.
What are some examples of prejudice?
300
We cannot separate the effects of race, gender, class, and sexual orientation.
What is the intersection theory?
300
The Executive Order 9066 by Franklin D. Roosevelt (1942.)
What is an example of expulsion?
300
It is a positive contribution for it is used as justification for a racially unequal society and to refine the bonds between groups due to exclusion; however, it is also a dysfunction as it fails to see the talent in the subordinate group.
What is the functionalist's view on race?
400
John Dollard (1939)
Who defined scapegoat theory?
400
level 3 of the pyramid of hate.
Which level is discrimination on the pyramid of hate?
400
Socioeconomic status, spatial concentration, language assimilation, intermarriage
What are the benchmarks of assimilation?
400
The only immigrants that did not come by choice.
What sets apart African-Americans apart from other subordinate groups in the USA?
500
Segregation indices.
What is the measurement of de facto segregation?
500
The United States of America deprive the right to vote of immigrants for stealing their jobs/land, etc.
What is an example scapegoat theory?