The dominant group in a society, even though it may not have the highest population.
What is majority?
100
The belief that one's culture or way of life is superior to all others.
What is ethnocentrism?
100
The process of denying rights and opportunities to groups or categories of people based on prejudice or an arbitrary rationale.
What is discrimination?
100
The status of becoming a nurse or physician.
What is achieved?
100
Caucasians of Northern or Western European origins, who are predominantly Protestant and who hold the majority of political and economic power in society.
What is Whites?
200
The sum total of a society's knowledge of the world, values, beliefs, language, norms, and material objects.
What is culture?
200
The process of diminishing the value, importance, contributions, or attributes of a category of people.
What is marginalization?
200
A negative way of thinking based on a rigid generalization about members of a particular group.
What is prejudice?
200
The social position in life which comes as a result of behavior or things that happen over which one has no control (e.g., race, gender, and so on).
What is ascribed status?
200
The dimension of social stratification which represents the ability to enforce one's will on others over their resistance.
What is power?
300
A category of people distinguished from the dominant society on the basis of distinctive and identifiable cultural components.
What is an ethnic group?
300
Triggers to ethnocentric responses which include manners and gestures.
What is behavior?
300
The form of discrimination resulting from long-standing behaviors and practices accepted as the normal state of affairs or a reflection of reality.
What is institutional or structural discrimination
300
The existence of a wide variety of cultures and subcultures represented within a society.
What is cultural diversity?
300
The disconnect in a society that occurs when material culture changes more rapidly than nonmaterial culture.
What is culture lag?
400
The tangible artifacts created by a culture.
What is material culture?
400
Triggers to ethnocentric responses which include a distinctive accent, speech pattern, terminology, inflection, argot, or slang.
What is voice?
400
One-on-one acts by members of the dominant group that harm subordinate group members or their property.
What is individual discrimination?
400
Diversity actions mandated by government.
What is affirmative action?
400
Whites have unearned advantages that they often are not aware of having.
What is white privilege?
500
Cultural beliefs that justify particular social arrangements, including patterns of inequality.
What is ideology?
500
A process whereby a previously distinct ethnic group merges socially into another group, usually the dominant group in mainstream society.
What is assimilation?
500
Longstanding practices and/or behaviors that have a negative impact on members of subordinate groups.
What is institutional discrimination?
500
A process in which two or more parties cooperatively interact in ways to accomplish a goal or reach an end.
What is collaboration?
500
One with a high-status occupations but that lack great power and/ or economic rewards.