Sociology ch. 11
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| ethnicity | social category of people who share common culture, language, religion, norms, etc.
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| race | Primarily a socially constructed category where a group is treated differently based on skin color and other differences. biological characteristics do not define race, it is how they're treated.
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| Racialization | Some social category takes on what are perceived society to be characteristics. Jews were racialized by Hitler as before they were an ethnic group.
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| Out-group Homogenity Effect | Vague descriptions of people from other countries. Koreans, Japanese, Chinese, would all be Asian.
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| Minority group | One distinct group that holds a low status because of discrimination and prejudice.
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| What are some similarities in minority groups? | Suffers from prejudice and discrimination, membership in the group is ascribed, members feel solidarity
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| Stereotype interchangibility | Stereotypes are interchangeable from one gender of race to another.
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| Prejudice | judgement of a group that is help even when disproved. Many things influence prejudism such as media, family, friends, etc.
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| Discrimination | Unequal treatment of members of a social group
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| Racism | Perception and treatment of a racial or ethnic group by acting superior or violent.
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| Forms of racism | Overt (physical assaults), Aversive (Avoiding interaction), Laissez (fair racism), color blind, Institutional (Negative treatement and oppression. job.)
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| stereotype | Oversimplified set of beliefs about members of a social group
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| Salience Principle | We categorize people by their most prominent feature
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| Residential segregation | Separation of racial/ethnic groups into different residential areas
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| Scapegoat theory | Members of the dominant group vent frustration about how they can't get a job due to mexican immigrants.
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| Assimilation | A minority becomes socially, economically, and culturally absorbed within a society to overcome adversity and oppression. Asians have followed this and are the "model minority"
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| segregation | spatial and social separation of racial and ethnic groups. Lower jobs, wages, protections under the law.
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| Functionalist and racism | Minorities must assimilate into a society to be functional
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| Symbolic Interaction Theory and racism | role of social interaction to reduce racial hostility
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| Contact theory | Racial prejudice will be reduced if both groups interact more but only on three conditions.
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| 3 conditions of contact theory | people must be equal status, have long contact, and agree upon equality.
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| Conflict theory and racism | The reduction of class inequality will reduce racial and ethnic conflict. Class shapes life chances
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| Intersection perspective | Refers to interactive and combined effects of racism, classism, and gender of oppressed people.
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| Cultural pluralism | Different groups in a society co-exist peacefully
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| Urban underclass | Absolute bottom class
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