21 Cards in this Set
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Race
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A vast collectivity of people more or less bound together by shared and selected history, ancestors, and physical features
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Ethnicity
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People who share, believe they share, or are believed by others to share a national origin; common ancestory; place of birth; religious practices; style of dress; etc
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Systems of Racial and Ethnic Classification
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Process that divide people into racial or ethnic categories that are implicitly or explicitly ranked on a scale of social worth
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Chance
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Not subject to human will, choice, or effort; it helps determine a person's racial and ethnic classification
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Context
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Social setting in which racial and ethnic categories are recognized, constructed, and challenged
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Choice
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The act of choosing from a range of possible behaviors or appearances; a person's choices may not agree with a particular race or ethnic group
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Foreign-Born
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People living within the political bounds of a country but were born elsewhere
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Minority Groups
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Subgroups within a society that can be distinguished from members of the dominant group by visible identifying characteristics, physical and cultural
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Assimilation
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Process by which ethnic or racial distinctions between groups disappear because one group is absorbed into another group's culture or because two cultures blend to form a new cultural system
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Absorption Assimilation
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Members of a minority group adapt to the ways of the dominant culture
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Segregation
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Physical or social separation of categories of people
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Involuntary Minorities
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Ethnic or racial groups that are forced to come to a country by slavery, conquest, or colonization
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Voluntary Minorities
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Racial or ethnic groups that come to a country expecting to improve their way of life
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Melting Pot Assimilation
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Cultural blending in which groups accept many new behaviors and values from one another. The exchange produces a new cultural system, which is a blend of previously separate systems
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Non Prejudice Discriminators (all-weather liberals)
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Persons who accept the creed of equal opportunity and whose conduct conforms to that creed
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Non prejudiced non discriminators (fair-weather liberals)
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Persons who believe in equal opportunity but discriminate because it gives them an advantage or they fail to consider their conscequences of their actions
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Prejudiced non discriminators (timid bigots)
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Persons who reject the creed of equal opportunity but refrain from discrimination because they fear the sanctions
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Prejudiced Discriminators (active bigots)
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Persons who reject the notion of equal opportunity and process a right, even a duty, to discriminate
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Institutuonal Discrimination
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The established, customary way of things in society-- the unchanged rules, policies, and day-to-day practices that impede or limit minority members achievement and keep them I'm disadvantaged positions
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Stigma
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A attribute that's deeply discrediting because it over shadows all over attributes that a person might possess. One is considered "reduced" from a person with higher status
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Mixed contacts
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Interactions between stigmatized persons and "normals" whether interacting or just in the presence
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SOC 100: Chap 9