Chapter 10 Race-Ethnicity

Question 1

Ethnicity

Answer 1

group with shared culture

Question 2

Race

Answer 2

group w. shared biological physical characterstics interior or exterior

Question 3

Sociolization

Answer 3

learn racial categories & associate psychic app with each

Question 4

Self fulfilling prophecy

Answer 4

we behave in ways that reinforce it

Question 5

Selective Interpretation

Answer 5

focus on what reinforces our myths

Question 6

Racism

Answer 6

belief a race is superior than other

Question 7

Racial Essentialism

Answer 7

idea that natural and immutable differences separated the races

Question 8

Radicalization of state

Answer 8

policies created by govt & private companies create racial differences giving one group privileges & other disadvantages

Question 9

Affirmitive action

Answer 9

Policies to increase opportunities for minorities

Question 10

Individual discrimination

Answer 10

actions and behaviors that help maintain domination of one race over others based on dominant groups better in subordinate groups inferiority - one on one acts on discrimination

Question 11

Institutional discrimination

Answer 11

the way that social institutions are organized can lead to unequal outcomes in society

Question 12

Two types of institutional

Answer 12

intentional, unintentional

Question 13

prejudice

Answer 13

pre judge some one based on inadequate info

Question 14

stereotypes

Answer 14

exaggerated or distorted generalizations -asian math wiz

Question 15

discrimination

Answer 15

unequal treatment that gives advantages to one group of people over another without justification

Question 16

Amalgamation

Answer 16

process by which a majority and a minority group blend or mix to form new group - intermarriage

Question 17

Assimilation

Answer 17

members of minority group come to adapt to culture of the majority group -christian dominant culture

Question 18

Segregation

Answer 18

keeping distinct social groups physically and socially seperate / unequal

Question 19

Genocide

Answer 19

systematic killing of group of people based on race gender or religion