Race and ethnicity Flashcards
Define Race
a socially constructed category of people who share biologically transmitted traits that members of a society consider important
Define Ethnicity
a shared cultural heritage
Three old racial types
caucasoid
negroid
mongoloid
Define Prejudice
a rigid and unfair generalization about an entire category of people
prejudices are prejudgments that can be negative or positive
-passive exatturates the virtues of people like ourselves
-the negative condemn those who differ from us
Define Racism
the belief that one racial category is innately superior or inferior to another
Define Scapegoat
a person or category of people typically with little power, whom people unfairly blame for their own troubles
Theories of Prejudice
scapegoat theory
Authoritarian personality theoy
culture theory
conflict theory
Define Discrimination
unequal treatment of various categories of people
Define Institutional prejudice and discrimination
Bias built into the operations of the societal institutions
Distinguish discrimination from prejudice
Closely related, both have negative and positive outcomes
they reinforce each other
Thomas theorem: situations that are defined as real become real in their consequences
Charmichael and hamilton
people are slow to condemn or even recognize institutional prejudice and discrimination because it often involves respected public officials and long-established traditions
Define pluralism
a state in which people of all races and ethnicities are distinct but have equal social standing
the vicious cycle of prejudice and discrimination
Stage one: prejudice and discrimination
Stage two: social disadvantages
Stage three: belief in minorities’ innate inferiority
Define Assimilation
the process by which minorities gradually adopt patterns of the dominant culture
Miscegenation
biological reproduction by patterns of different racial categories
