Chapter 1

Question 1

Affirmative Action

Answer 1

The practice or policy of favoring individuals belonging to groups known to have been discriminated against previously.

Question 2

Assimilation

Answer 2

Process through which individuals and groups of differing heritages acquire the basic habits, attitudes, and more of life of an embracing culture.

Question 3

Collective Conscience

Answer 3

Set of shared beliefs, ideas, and moral attitudes which operate as a unifying force within society.

Question 4

Cultural Fusion

Answer 4

Process through which newcomers to a culture adopt behaviors / traits of the dominant culture and maintain elements of their minority identity to function in the dominant culture.

Question 5

Discrimination

Answer 5

The unjust or prejudicial treatment of different categories of people or things, especially on the grounds of race, age, or sex

Question 6

Environmental Justice

Answer 6

The fair treatment and meaningful involvement of all people, regardless of race, color, national origin, or income, with respect to the development, implementation, and enforcement of environmental laws, regulations, and policies.

Question 7

Environmental Racism

Answer 7

A type of systemic racism where policies and practices place industrial facilities in low income communities, including communities of color.

Question 8

Ethnicism

Answer 8

Prejudice based on ethnic origin

Question 9

Ethnocentric

Answer 9

Lack in respect for other ways of life. Ethnocentric person feels that their own nation or group is the cultural center of the world.

Question 10

Expulsion

Answer 10

The process of forcing someone to leave a place, especially a country.

Question 11

Extermination

Answer 11

Killing, especially of a whole group of people or animals.

Question 12

Genocide

Answer 12

The deliberate killing of a large number of people from a particular nation or ethnic group with the aim of destroying that nation or group

Question 13

Heterogeneous Society

Answer 13

One in which numerous population groups have specific and distinct values and understandings

Question 14

Homogeneous Society

Answer 14

A kind of society that has similar kinds of people, especially where there are no significant ethnic differences.

Question 15

Institutional Discrimination

Answer 15

Prejudicial practices and policies within institutions that result in the systematic denial of resources and opportunities to members of subordinate groups.

Question 16

Involuntary Migration

Answer 16

People who are forced to move–by organized persecution or government pressure

Question 17

Melting Pot

Answer 17

A place where different peoples, styles, theories, etc. are mixed together.

Question 18

Multiculturalism

Answer 18

The presence of, or support for the presence of, several distinct cultural or ethnic groups within a society.

Question 19

Neocolonialism

Answer 19

the use of economic, political, cultural, or other pressures to control or influence other countries, especially former dependencies.

Question 20

Operationalization

Answer 20

the process of developing operational definitions by describing how actual measurements will be made

Question 21

Prejudice

Answer 21

preconceived opinion that is not based on reason or actual experience.

Question 22

Prejudiced Discriminator

Answer 22

hold personal prejudices and actively discriminate against others

Question 23

Prejudiced Non-Discriminator

Answer 23

hold personal prejudices but do not discriminate due to peer pressure, legal demands, or a desire for profits

Question 24

Racism

Answer 24

prejudice, discrimination, or antagonism directed against a person or people on the basis of their membership in a particular racial or ethnic group, typically one that is a minority or marginalized.

Question 25

Reverse Discrimination

Answer 25

discrimination against members of a dominant or majority group, in favor of members of a minority or historically disadvantaged group.

Question 26

Secession

Answer 26

the action of withdrawing formally from membership of a federation or body, especially a political state.

Question 27

Segregation

Answer 27

the action or state of setting someone or something apart from other people or things or being set apart.

Question 28

Social Construction of Race

Answer 28

a story of power, in which those in positions of political, economic, and social authority create and recreate categories of difference and assign meaning and value on the basis of those categories to maintain and naturalize their own dominance.

Question 29

Unprejudiced Discriminator

Answer 29

may have no personal prejudice but still engage in discriminatory behavior because of peer group pressure or economic, political, or social interests.

Question 30

Unprejudiced Non-Discriminator

Answer 30

not personally prejudiced and do not discriminate against others

Question 31

Voluntary Migration

Answer 31

occurs when someone chooses to leave home