Chapter 9

Question 1

A group whose inherited physical characteristics distinguish it from other groups.

Answer 1

Race

Question 2

The annihilation or attempted annihilation of a people because of their presumed race or ethnicity.

Answer 2

Genocide

Question 3

Having distinctive cultural characteristics

Answer 3

Ethnicity

Question 4

People who are singled out for unequal treatment and who regard themselves as objects of collective discrimination

Answer 4

Minority group

Question 5

The group with the most power, greatest privileges and highest social status.

Answer 5

Dominant group.

Question 6

Activities designed to discover, enhance, maintain, or transmit and ethnic or racial identity.

Answer 6

Ethnic work

Question 7

An act of unfair treatment directed against an individual or a group.

Answer 7

Discrimination

Question 8

Prejudice and discrimination on the basis of race.

Answer 8

Racism

Question 9

An attitude or prejudging, usually in a negative way.

Answer 9

Prejudice

Question 10

The idea that prejudice and negative stereotypes decrease and racial ethnic relations improve when people from different racial ethnic backgrounds, who are of equal status, interact frequently.

Answer 10

Contact theory.

Question 11

Person to person or face to face discrimination the negative treatment of people by other individuals.

Answer 11

Individual discrimination.

Question 12

Negative treatment of a minority group that is built into a society’s institutions; also called systemic discrimination.

Answer 12

Institutional discrimination.

Question 13

An individual or group unfairly blamed for someone else’s troubles.

Answer 13

Scapegoat.

Question 14

Theodor Adorno’s term for people who are prejudiced and rank high on scales of conformity, intolerance, insecurity, respect for authority, and submissiveness to superiors.

Answer 14

Authoritarian personality

Question 15

Workers split along racial-ethnic, gender, age, or any other lines’ this split is exploited by owners to weaken the bargaining power of workers.

Answer 15

Split labor market.

Question 16

The unemployed’ unemployed workers are thought of as being “in reserve” capitalists take them out of reserve during times of high production and then put them back in reserve when they are no longer needed.

Answer 16

Reserve labor force.

Question 17

Seeing certain features of an object or situation, but remaining blind to others.

Answer 17

Selective perception.

Question 18

To separate acts from feelings or attitudes.

Answer 18

Compartmentalize

Question 19

The forced transfer of a minority group.

Answer 19

Population transfer

Question 20

A policy of eliminating a population; includes forcible expulsion and genocide.

Answer 20

Ethnic cleansing

Question 21

The policy of exploiting minority groups for economic gain

Answer 21

Internal colonialism.

Question 22

The policy of keeping racial ethnic groups apart.

Answer 22

Segregation

Question 23

The process of being absorbed into the mainstream culture.

Answer 23

Assimilation

Question 24

A policy that permits or encourages ethnic differences.

Answer 24

Multiculturalism

Question 25

White Anglo Saxon Protestant.

Answer 25

WASP

Question 26

White immigrants to the United States whose cultures differ from WASP culture.

Answer 26

White ethnics.

Question 27

The sense that better conditions are soon to follow, which if unfulfilled increases frustration.

Answer 27

Rising expectations.

Question 28

The sense that better conditions are soon to follow, which, if unfulfilled, increases frustration

Answer 28

Rising Expectations