Chapter 10
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Race and Ethnic Stratification. Is it a question of color??
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Terms | Definitions |
|---|---|
 Race | The division of people based on physical characteristics |
| Ethnicity | The classification of people who share a common cultural, linguistic or ancestral heritage |
| Majority group | the group that has the largest population and holds a significant amount of power and privilege |
| Minority group | a group that has a smaller population and less power than the majority group |
| colonialism | A minority group ruling over a majority group is almost always the result of _________. |
| colonialism | is the imposition of control over a weak nation by a more powerful country. |
| Dominant group | the group that has the greatest power, but not necessarily the greatest numbers |
| Racism | discrimination based on a person's race |
| Racism | involves a complex combination of privilege, power, and oppression |
| Genocide | refers to the attempt to destroy or exterminate a person based on their race or ethnicity |
| Hate groups | organizations that promote hostility or violence toward others based on race and other factors |
| Conquest | the domination over a group of people by a superior force |
| Annexation | the incorporation of one territory into another |
| Voluntary immigration | the willing movement of people from one society to another - desire for a better life |
| Involuntary immigration | the forced immigration of people from one soceity to another -enslaved Africans to the US |
| Migrant Superordination | the conquest of a native population by a more powerful group |
| Indigenous Superordination | subordination of an immigrant group to a dominant group |
| Pluralistic Minorities | groups that enter into an area voluntarily but seek to maintain their own culture while also integrating into the dominant groups |
| Assimilationist Minorities | groups that seek to shed their old ways and integrate themselves into what is considered mainstream society |
| Secessionist Minorities | groups that voluntarily separate themselves from the dominant group and view the dominant group with distain, believing that it will corrupt the group's belief system |
| Militant minorities | groups that seek to overthrow the existing system because they see it as unjust |
| Ethnic Enclaves | neighborhoods where people from similar cultures live together and assert cultural distinction from the dominant group |
| Prejudice | refers to negative attitudes about an entire category of people |
| Stereotypes | simplified perceptions people have of an entire group that are usually based on false assumptions |
| Discrimination | the unfair treatment of people based on prejudice |
| Institutional discrimination | maintains the advantage for the dominant group, while providing the appearance of fairness to all |
| Scrapegoat | an unfair accusation against a person or group as the cause of a problem |
| Segregation | Forced separation because of factors such as race, gender or ethnicity |
| Cycle of poverty | a generational barrier that prevents poor people from breaking into middle and upper classes |
| Symbolic interactionist | stress the importance of racial language in the creation of society |
| Color-blind racism | suggests that we often ignore institutional discrimination that applies to minorities |
| Double consciousness | the sense that a person must keep a foot in two worlds, one in the majority group's world, one in the minority group's world |
| Conflict Theorists | seeks to explain racial stratification by looking at power relations in the society |
| Functionalist | might ask how racism holds the socity together |
| Affirmative Action | a social policy designed to help minority groups gain opportunities through employment and education |
| Ethnic cleansing | refers to persecution through imprisonment, explusion, or murder of members of an ethnic minority by a majority to achieve ethnic homogeneity in majority-controlled territory |
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