Midterm! Flashcards
Race (5)
perceived physical differences, assigned, reflects power relations, difference in worth, constructed by others
Ethnicity (5)
common descent, assertion or assigned, may reflect power relations, may imply differences in worth, constructed by both selves and others
Primordial Rationale for group formation
Blood, cultural connections rooted in circumstances of birth
Primordial orientation of R/E IDs
Toward local community interests often not material but ideal
Primordial Key explanatory variables or terms
Nature, bio, culture, socialization
Primordial Nature of Group Ties
Given deeply rooted not a matter of choice, but of inheritance
Primordial relationship to history
rooted in history and tradition, stable
Primordial relationship to circumstance
largely unaffected by circumstance
Primordial relationship b/w R/E and class
prior to and preemptive of class interests
Primordial Role as a social scientific variable
independent
Circumstantial Rationale for group formation
Either utility, or organizational experience
Circumstantial orientation of R/E IDs
Toward political, econ and status interests
Circumstantial Key explanatory variables or terms
circumstances, history, structured inequality
Circumstantial Nature of Group Ties
Instrumental, expedient, convenient- a matter of circumstance and choice
Circumstantial relationship to history
Product of history, changing, variable
Circumstantial to circumstance
Product of circumstance
Circumstantial relationship b/w R/E and class
Often serves class interests
Circumstantial Role as a social scientific variable
Dependent
Thin
Not significant, not crucial to defining yourself
Thick
Live w/ co-ethnics, drives a major part of their life
Assigned
Decide for you
Asserted
Group decision design
Expressive
ID for symbolic and personal meaning pride/ID feeling
Instrumental
Designed to accomplish something making a claim
Structured social inequality
As a group, it is very hard to break out. Stops ability to think about these. Education is minimal
Institutional discrimination
Denial of rights and opportunities that results from the normal operations of a society
Transformative assets
ways people can use leverage for other things
Race Relations cycle
Contact w/ dom group, competition, accommodation, assimilation
Social closure
Use of some characteristic of group to exclude members from scarce resources to protect access of others
Social reproduction
How schools channel people into the jobs consistent to their background
Dejure
By law
Defacto
by practice
Prejudice
Prejudice is a negative or hostile attitude toward a group or person from that group. It is based on faulty generalization.
Discrimination
is an action, behavior, treatment or outcome. Discrimination can result from prejudice, but it does not always, Discrimination can be the result of social processes and institutional arrangements as well as the actions of an individual
Social Constructionism
Borrows heavily from Circumstantialism – external factors are very important – but adds the agency of actors (individuals and groups).
