Sociology 101 Chapter 8
double-consiousness
W.E.B. Du Bois asked whether one could be black and at the same time claim one's rights as an American
prejudice
a prejudgement; an inflexible attitude about a particular group of people and is rooted in generalizations or stereotypes
discrimination
an action or behavior that results in the unequal treatment of individuals because of their membership in a certain racial or ethnic group
racism
an ideology or set of beliefs about the claimed superiority of one racial or ethnic group over another
race consciousness
awareness of the importance of race in our everyday lives and in our dealings with social institutions
privilege
based on class, race, gender, sexuality or other factors
genocide
deliberate and systematic extermination of a racial, ethnic, national, or cultural group
situational ethnicity
deliberately assert our ethnicity in some situations while downplaying it in others
symbolic ethnicity
enactments of ethnic identity that occur only on special occasions
internal colonialism
exploitation of a minority group within the dominant group's borders
population transfer
forcible removal of a group of people from the territory they have occupied
racial assimilation
having children with the dominant group until the different races are completely mixed
racial passing
living as if one is a member of a different racial category
cultural assimilation
members learn the cultural practices of the dominant group
cultural appropriation
members of the dominant group adopt, co-opt, or otherwise take cultural elements from a marginalized group and use them for their own advantage
assimilation
minority group is absorbed into the dominant groups
institutional discrimination
occurs when institutions practice discriminatory policies that affect whole groups of individuals
individual discrimination
occurs when one person treats others unfairly because of their race or ethnicity
minority groups
people who are recognized as belonging to a social category and who suffer from unequal treatment as a result of that status
pluralism
permits racial and ethnic variation within one society; encourages people to embrace diversity as a positive feature of a society
segregation
physical separation of groups by race or ethnicity
ethnicity
social category that is applied to a group with a shared ancestry or cultural heritage
race
social category; based on real or perceived biological differences between groups of people
color-blind racism
subtle form of racism; acting as if different races do not exist
embodied identity
the way we are perceived in the physical world