Race and Ethnicity

Question 1

Genocide

Answer 1

A form of violent social conflict or war, between armed power organizations that aim to destroyed civilian social groups and those groups and other actors who resist this destruction

Question 2

Ethnicity

Answer 2

A group of people with shared culture

Question 3

Minority group

Answer 3

A culturally, ethnically, or racially distinct group that coexists with but is subordinate to a more dominant group

Question 4

Dominant group

Answer 4

One with the upper hand, power, social status and/or certain privileges

Question 5

Discrimination

Answer 5

The unfair or prejudicial treatment of people and groups based on characteristics such as race, gender, age, or sexual orientation

Question 6

Racism

Answer 6

Discrimination and prejudice against people based on their race or ethnicity

Question 7

Prejudice

Answer 7

The beliefs, thoughts, feelings, and attitudes someone holds about a group

Question 8

Contact theory

Answer 8

Based on the idea that peaceful and friendly interpersonal contact can help in reducing prejudices between groups and foster better cooperation and friendly relationships

Question 9

Individual discrimination

Answer 9

The actions of and individual or small group or individuals

Question 10

Institutional discrimination

Answer 10

Discriminatory treatment of an individual or group of individuals by society or institutions, through unequal consideration or member of subordinate groups

Question 11

Scapegoat

Answer 11

A social phenomenon whereby members of an aggrieved majority group retaliate against innocent third parties, usually members of vulnerable minority groups

Question 12

Authoritarian personality

Answer 12

A person who has extreme respect for authority and is more likely to be obedient to those who hold power over them

Question 13

Split labor market

Answer 13

When a price differential exists between two or more groups of workers able to perform the same work

Question 14

Reserve labor market

Answer 14

The unemployed and underemployed in capitalist society

Question 15

Selective perception

Answer 15

the unconscious process by which people screen, select, and notice objects in their environment

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Compartmentalize

Answer 16

Defense mechanism in which people mentally separate conflicting thoughts, emotions, or experiences to avoid the discomfort of contradiction

Question 17

Population transfer

Answer 17

the movement of a large group of people from one region to another by state police or international authority, most frequently on the basis of ethnicity or religion

Question 18

Ethnic cleansing

Answer 18

The systematic forces removal or ethnic, racial, or religious group from a given area with the intent of making the society ethnically homogenous

Question 19

Internal colonialism

Answer 19

Economic imbalances within a state, caused by one or more religions of the state taking advantage of other regions

Question 20

Segregation

Answer 20

Separation of groups of people with differing characteristics, often taken to connote a condition of inequality

Question 21

Assimilation

Answer 21

The process whereby individual or groups of differing ethnic heritage are absorbed into the dominant culture of a society

Question 22

Jim Crow Laws

Answer 22

State and local laws introduced in the Southern US in the late 19th and early 20th centuries that enforced racial segregation

Question 23

Multiculturalism

Answer 23

the acceptance of different cultures in a society and the active support of these cultural differences by both the majority and minority group members

Question 24

Pluralism

Answer 24

A situation in which people of different social classes, religions, races are together in a society but continue to have their different tradition and interests

Question 25

WASP

Answer 25

White Anglo-saxon protestant

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White privilege

Answer 26

the set of social and economic advantages that white people have by virtue of their race in a culture characterized by racial inequality

Question 27

White ethnics

Answer 27

People of European descent

Question 28

Rising expectations

Answer 28

A sociological theory that posits as people experience improvement in their living conditions, they develop higher expectations for their quality of life