Lecture 10 Flashcards

Racial Inequality

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What is nationality?

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Belonging to a particular nation

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What is a region?

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An area especially a part of a country

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What is a religion?

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a particular group that worships god

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is race a biological trait or a social construct?

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a social construct

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what is race?

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

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what is ethnicity?

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a shared cultural heritage

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what is a key similarity of both race and ethnicity?

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they are both socially constructed and rooted in history

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what is immigration?

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the movement of people into a country from another

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what are push factors?

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factors of a country that make someone want to leave

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what are pull factors?

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aspects of a country that attract people

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what is racism?

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believing that traits influence behaviour

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what is prejudice?

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a negative preconceived notion about a particular group of people

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what is decline bias?

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

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what is scapegoating?

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blaming a group of people for something they did not do

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what is assimilation?

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

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what is another phrase for assimilation?

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melting pot

14
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what is pluralism?

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

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what is overt discrimination?

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clear discrimination

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what is subtle discrimination?

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unclear discrimination

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what is systemic discrimination?

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discrimination caused by the structures of society

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what is adaptive discrimination?

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

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what is cultural racism?

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

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what is whitewashing?

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deliberately concealing unpleasant facts

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what is conscious discrimination?

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

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what is unconscious or implicit discrimination?
discrimination that occurs outside of a person's awareness
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what is a microaggression?
behaviour that subtly expresses prejudiced towards a marginalized group
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what is proportionality?
when one thing is properly balance with something else
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what are Starlight tours?
police would arrest Indigenous people, take them to the outskirts of the city and leave them there to freeze to death
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what is social desirability bias?
the tendency in a survey to underreport socially undesirable facts
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what is sampling bias?
not including a group of people in a sample survey intentionally or unintentionally
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what is intergenerational trauma?
when trauma is passed down generations
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what are the two main points that critical race theory states in terms of racial inequality?
1. race is used to oppress and exploit people of colour 2. racism is embedded in a lot of social institutions
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what is mastery?
feeling that one has personal control over their life
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what is relative deprivation?
feeling anger and resentment because one does not have the same economic, social, and political rights relative to others