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