Chapter 11

Question 0

Define ethnicity.

Answer 0

Shared cultural heritage.

Question 1

Define race?

Answer 1

Socially constructed biological traits.

Question 2

Define minorities?

Answer 2

Any category of people distinguished by physical or cultural differences.

Question 3

Define prejudice?

Answer 3

A rigid and unfair generation about an entire.

Question 4

Define stereotypes?

Answer 4

Simplified description applied to every person in some categories.

Question 5

Define racism?

Answer 5

The belief that one racial category is superior or inferior.

Question 6

Define scapegoat.

Answer 6

A person with little power somebody unfairly blame.

Question 7

What is the scape goat theory.

Answer 7

Holds other prejudice spring from frustration.

Question 8

What authoritarian personality theory?

Answer 8

Only see things in black and white.

Question 9

What is culture theory?

Answer 9

Prejudice is embedded in our culture.

Question 10

What is conflict theory?

Answer 10

Use to suppress others.

Question 11

Define discrimination?

Answer 11

Unequal treatment.

Question 12

What is institutional prejudice and discrimination?

Answer 12

Bias build into the institution of society.

Question 13

Prejudice and discrimination do what?

Answer 13

Reinforce each other.

Question 14

Define pluralism?

Answer 14

All races and ethnicities are distinct but have equal social standings.

Question 15

Define assimilation?

Answer 15

Minorities gradually adapt patterns of dominant culture.

Question 16

Define segregation?

Answer 16

Separation of people.

Question 17

Define genocide?

Answer 17

Killing of an entire race.

Question 18

Define miscegenation?

Answer 18

Biological reproduction of people.

Question 19

When did native Americans become citizen.

Answer 19

1924. There were here first. They were below minimal.

Question 20

What are the white Anglo Saxon Protestants

Answer 20

Scottish and English and welsh

Question 21

What is the 13 amendment?

Answer 21

Slavery

Question 22

What is the 14 amendment?

Answer 22

Citizenship.

Question 23

What is the 15 amendment?

Answer 23

Right to vote

Question 24

What are Asian Americans?

Answer 24

Chinese, Japanese, Korean,

Question 25

What races are Hispanic American?

Answer 25

Mexican, Puerto Rican, Cuban

Question 26

What races are Arab Americans?

Answer 26

They come from 22 countries. They include Iraq, Saudi Arabia, Egypt,

Question 27

What percentage of the us make up Hispanics, African Americans, Asian Americans, and Arab Americans. Native American

Answer 27

``` Hispanic is 16.4 African American is 13 Asian is 4.9 Arab is 0.5 Native American is .8 ```

Question 28

What is the characteristics of the racial type caucasoid

Answer 28

People with relatively light skin and fine hair.

Question 29

What is the characteristics of the racial type negroid

Answer 29

People with darker skin and coarse hair.

Question 30

What is the characteristics of the racial type mongoloid?

Answer 30

People with yellow or brown skin and distinctive folds on the eyelids.

Question 31

What are the two important characteristics of minorities?

Answer 31

Distinctive identity and subordination.

Question 32

What is distinctive identity?

Answer 32

Which may be based on physical or cultural traits.

Question 33

What is social distance?

Answer 33

How closer people are willing to interact with members of some category.

Question 34

Who evented the social distance scale.

Answer 34

Emory Bogardus.

Question 35

What did Thomas Sowell do?

Answer 35

Explains that most of this difference results not from biology but from environment. He said the iq test was culturally bias.

Question 36

Define assimilation

Answer 36

The process by which minorities gradually adopt patterns of the dominant culture.

Question 37

Women couldn't vote until

Answer 37

1920