Final Exam Flashcards
Prejudice
To pre-judge/ negative attitudes and beliefs about certain groups (often reinforced by sterotypes)
Stereotypes
Categorizing groups based on “mis”assumptions
Segregation
Spatial and social separation of people
Ethnocentrism
Your ethnicity/ culture superior to others
Overt racism
Discrimination
Institutional racism
Is deliberate
Quiet Revolution
Social, political and cultural changes that occurred in Quebec in the 1960s
Culture of poverty thesis
Some ethnic groups don’t readily assimilate and hence are poor because their culture doesn’t value economic success hard work and achievement
vertical mosaic
Society in which ethnic groups tend to occupy different and unequal positions in a stratification system
Discrimination (de jure and de facto)
The act:
De jure- encoded in the law
De facto- subtlety hidden/ part of culture
assimilation
- subordinate groups (racial or ethnic) become absorbed into the dominant culture
- forced
- voluntary
Race
Social construct
Intensive motherhood
The predominant model of the loving, maternal figure selflessly devoting most of her time and energy to her children.
Gender wage gap
Is the discrepancy between men’s and women’s earnings
Human capital theory
A person’s location in the labour market depends largely on that person’s rationally chosen investmentgin education and skills, which constitute that person’s human capital
