Lecture 10

Question 1

What is nationality?

Answer 1

Belonging to a particular nation

Question 2

What is a region?

Answer 2

An area especially a part of a country

Question 2

What is a religion?

Answer 2

a particular group that worships god

Question 2

is race a biological trait or a social construct?

Answer 2

a social construct

Question 3

what is race?

Answer 3

a category of people who have distinct characteristics that are deemed important

Question 4

what is ethnicity?

Answer 4

a shared cultural heritage

Question 5

what is a key similarity of both race and ethnicity?

Answer 5

they are both socially constructed and rooted in history

Question 6

what is immigration?

Answer 6

the movement of people into a country from another

Question 7

what are push factors?

Answer 7

factors of a country that make someone want to leave

Question 8

what are pull factors?

Answer 8

aspects of a country that attract people

Question 9

what is racism?

Answer 9

believing that traits influence behaviour

Question 10

what is prejudice?

Answer 10

a negative preconceived notion about a particular group of people

Question 11

what is decline bias?

Answer 11

tendency to compare the present to the past and think the present is bad because change is occuring

Question 11

what is scapegoating?

Answer 11

blaming a group of people for something they did not do

Question 12

what is assimilation?

Answer 12

when people not apart of the dominant group adapt to the dominant groups culture

Question 13

what is another phrase for assimilation?

Answer 13

melting pot

Question 14

what is pluralism?

Answer 14

the mixing of other cultures whereby each culture maintains its own identity

Question 15

what is overt discrimination?

Answer 15

clear discrimination

Question 16

what is subtle discrimination?

Answer 16

unclear discrimination

Question 17

what is systemic discrimination?

Answer 17

discrimination caused by the structures of society

Question 18

what is adaptive discrimination?

Answer 18

discrimination against a group not because of holding discriminating beliefs but because other people are doing it

Question 19

what is cultural racism?

Answer 19

the way the culture of society perpetuates subordination of individuals based on race

Question 20

what is whitewashing?

Answer 20

deliberately concealing unpleasant facts

Question 21

what is conscious discrimination?

Answer 21

overt negative behaviour that can be expressed as physical or verbal abuse

Question 22

what is unconscious or implicit discrimination?

Answer 22

discrimination that occurs outside of a person’s awareness

Question 23

what is a microaggression?

Answer 23

behaviour that subtly expresses prejudiced towards a marginalized group

Question 24

what is proportionality?

Answer 24

when one thing is properly balance with something else

Question 25

what are Starlight tours?

Answer 25

police would arrest Indigenous people, take them to the outskirts of the city and leave them there to freeze to death

Question 26

what is social desirability bias?

Answer 26

the tendency in a survey to underreport socially undesirable facts

Question 27

what is sampling bias?

Answer 27

not including a group of people in a sample survey intentionally or unintentionally

Question 28

what is intergenerational trauma?

Answer 28

when trauma is passed down generations

Question 29

what are the two main points that critical race theory states in terms of racial inequality?

Answer 29

1. race is used to oppress and exploit people of colour
2. racism is embedded in a lot of social institutions

Question 30

what is mastery?

Answer 30

feeling that one has personal control over their life

Question 31

what is relative deprivation?

Answer 31

feeling anger and resentment because one does not have the same economic, social, and political rights relative to others