Sociology Chapter 6

One of the most crucial aspects of the relationship between dominant and subordinate groups is the ability of the dominant or majority group to

Define a societys images of a group 'the defiition of the situatio' which leads to stereotyping

The process of denying opportunities and equal rights to individuals and groups because of prejudice or for other arbitrary reasons is known as

Discrimination

The denial of opportunities and equal rights to individuals or groups that results from the normal operations of society is called

Institutional Discrimination

W. I. Thomas observed that people respond not only to the objective features of a situation or person but also to the meaning that situation or person has for them. This observation reflects which sociological perspective

Interactionist

Unreliable generalizations about all members of a group that do not recognize individual differences within the group is referred to as a(an)

Stereotype

The process by which people come to define a group as a race based, in part, on physical characteristics, but also on historical, cultural, and economic factors, is called

The Social Construction of Race

The functionalist perspective would most likely

suggest that racist beliefs discourage the subordinate minority from attempting to question its lowly status, and thus question the very foundations of society

Which of the following statements about racial groups in the United States is true?

All of these

Patterns of income across race and gender groups suggest that __________ bear an especially heavy burden of discrimination

Black Women

An invisible barrier that blocks the promotion of a qualified individual in a work environment because of the individual's gender, race, or ethnicity is known as

A glass ceiling

Which of the following terms refers to positive efforts to recruit minority members or women for jobs, promotions, and educational opportunities

Affirmative ACtion

Largest Racial Minority

African American

Which sociological perspective would be most likely to emphasize that stereotypes contribute to prejudice and thereby assist the subordination of disadvantaged racial and ethnic groups?

Conflict

Characteristics of national origin or distinctive cultural patterns are used primarily by a society to set apart:

Ethnic Groups

Which term is used to refer to a negative attitude toward an entire category of people?

Prejudice

Which term is used by sociologists to describe a group that is set apart from others because of obvious physical differences

Racial Group

A belief that one race is supreme and all others are innately inferior is called

Racism

Prejudice is to discrimination as

attitude is to behavior

Ethnocentrism

the tendency to assume that one's culture and way of life are superior to all others