Chap 1

Question 0

Amalgamation

Answer 0

Process by which a dominant group and a subordinate group combine through intermarriage to form a new group

Question 1

Afrocentric perspective

Answer 1

Emphasis on the customs of African cultures and how they have pervaded the history, culture, and behavior of black in the United States and around the world

Question 2

Assimilation

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Process by which a subordinate individual or group takes on the characteristics of the dominant group

Question 3

Biological race

Answer 3

The mistaken notion of a genetically insulated human group

Question 4

Blaming the victim

Answer 4

Portraying the problem of racial and ethnic minorities as their fault rather than recognizing society’s responsibilities

Question 5

Class

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Max weber: people who share similar levels of wrath

Question 6

Colonialism

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A foreign powers maintenance of political, social, economic, and cultural dominance over people for an extended period

Question 7

Conflict perspective

Answer 7

Sociological approach

Assumes that the social structure is best understood interns of conflict or tension between the groups

Question 8

Dysfunction

Answer 8

Element of society that may disrupt a social system or decrease it’s stability

Question 9

Emigration

Answer 9

Leaving a country to settle in another

Question 10

Ethnic cleansing

Answer 10

Forced deportation of people with violence

Question 11

Ethnic group

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National / culture

A group set apart from others because it’s national original or culture

Question 12

Functionalist perspective

Answer 12

A sociological approach emphasizing how parts of a society are structured to maintain it’s stability

Living organism

Question 13

Fusion

Answer 13

A minority and a majority group combining to form a new group

Question 14

Genocide

Answer 14

Deliberate, systematic killing if an entire people or nation

Question 15

Globalization

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Worldwide integration of government policies, cultures, social movements, and financial market through trade, movements of people, and the exchange of ideas

Question 16

Immigration

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Coming into a new country as a permanent resident

Question 17

Intelligence quotient

Answer 17

The ratio of a persons age to his or her chronological age multiplied by 100

Question 18

Labeling theory

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Sociological approach by Becker. Attempts to explain why certain people are vowed as deviant and others engaging in the same behavior are not

Role that negative stereotypes play in race and ethnicity

Question 19

Marginality

Answer 19

The status of being between two cultures at the same time

Jewish immigrants

Question 20

Melting pot

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Diverse racial or ethnic group or both, forming a new creating a new culture

Question 21

Minority group

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Subordinate group whose members have significant less power or control over their lives than do the members of a dominant or majority group

Question 22

Panethnicity

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The development of solidarity between ethnic groups

Hispanics

Asian American

Question 23

Pluralism

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Mutual respect between group

Question 24

Racial formation

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A sociohistorical process by which racial categories are created, inhabited, transformed and destroyed

Question 25

Racial group

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Physical differences

Question 26

Racism

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Doctrine one race is superior to the other one

Question 27

Resegregation

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The physical separation of racial and ethnic groups reappearing after a period of relevance integration

Question 28

Segregation

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Physical separation of two groups often imposed on a subordinate group by the dominant group

Question 29

Self fulfilling prophecy

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The tendency to respond to and act on the basis of stereotype, a predisposition that can lead one to validate false defenition

Question 30

Sociology

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The systematic study of social behavior and human group

Question 31

Stereotypes

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Unrealizable, exaggerated generalizations about all meets of a group that do not take individual differences into account

Question 32

Stratification

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A structured ranking of entire groups of people that perpetuates unequal rewards and power in a society

Question 33

World system theory

Answer 33

View of the global economic system as divided between nations that control the wealth and nation that provides natural resources and labor