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sociology
quiz 5
| Term | Definition |
|---|---|
| Giddy Multitude | what the white elites called the poor common people, both black and white of the day. |
| Francis Galton | an explorer, statistician, inventor, and scientist with diverse interests. Charles Darwin's cousin. |
| Eugenics | selective breeding. Coined by Galton |
| Biological Determinism | Theory that worth can be assigned to individuals and groups by measuring intelligence via IQ, etc. No free will . Everything determined biologically, |
| Polygenesis | theory that different human races are separate biological species and as such are descendents of a different Adam and Eve. |
| Recapitulation | belief that adults of inferior groups resemble children of superior groups |
| Reification | process of converting abstract ideas into entities. The transformation of an idea into an object or thing. ex: IQ intelligence |
| race | an arbitrary sub-classification of people (assigned) |
| physical (race) | skin color, hair texture, shape of eyes |
| ethnicity | system of classifying people who are believed to share common descent, based on perceived and chosen similarities. |
| Jim Crow Laws | segregation laws |
| defacto | matter of fact, not actual law, but people followed and knew them |
| dejure | by law, actual laws put in place ex: different bathrooms |
| anti-miscegenation | race mixing |
| ethnic cleansing | genocide |
| one drop rule | if one person in family was black, you were considered black |
| Chinese exclusion acts of 1882, 1892 | halted Chinese immigration |
| colorblind ideology | way of viewing race that maintains that if we ignore race and racial issues, racism will not exist |
| discrimination | unfair treatment of groups of people |
| ethnic group | consists of those who share the same cultural heritage, including languages, nation or origin, and religion |
| ethnocentrism | belief that ones own culture is superior to others |
| gentlemen's agreement of 1907 | halted Japanese immigration |
| Hayes-Tilden Compromise of 1877 | Hayes would become president, and that federal troops were withdrawn from the former confederacy and whites were once again able to dominate political power in the South. Jim Crow laws began |
| Immigration Act of 1924 | 2% immigration quotas per nation |
| Immigrant Act of 1965 | abolished national quotas replacing them with quotas from the eastern and western hemispheres. |
| institutional discrimination | happens as a result of how institutions operate |
| internal colonialism | results from one ethnic or racial group subordinating and exploiting the resources of other racial and ethnic groups |
| microagressions | everyday slights aimed, intentionally or unintentionally at racial and ethnic minority groups |
| prejudice | irrational feelings toward members of a particular group |
| racism | belief in the superiority of one or more racial groups that creates and maintains a racial hierarchy |
| racism evasiveness | ignoring issues of racism |
| stereotypes | predetermined ideas about particular groups of people that are passed on through hearsay or small samples and held regardless of evidence |
| three-fifths compromise | treated slaves as 3/5 a person for the purpose of representation in the House of Representatives and taxation |
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