Chapter 8
Pluralism
A cultural pattern of intergroup relations that encourages racial and ethnic variation and acceptance within a society
Assimilation
A pattern of relations between ethnic or racial groups in which the minority group is absorbed into the mainstream or dominant group making society more homogeneous
Segregation
A physical and legal separation of groups by race or ethnicity
Racism
A set of beliefs about the superiority of one racial or ethnic group: used to justify any quality and often rooted in the assumption that the differences between groups are genetic
Race
A socially defined category based on a real or perceived biological differences between groups of people
Ethnicity
A socially defined category based on common language religion nationality history or another cultural factor
Situational ethnicity
And ethnic identity that can be either displayed or concealed depending on its usefulness in a given situation
Individual discrimination
Discrimination carried out systematically by institutions that affect all members of a group who come into contact with it (political or economic)
Symbolic ethnicity
One ethnic identity that is only relevant on specific occasions and does not significantly impact every day life
Passing
Presenting yourself as a member of a different racial or or ethnic group than the one you were born into
Miscegenation
Romantic sexual or marital relationships between people of different races
Minority group
Social group that is systematically denied the same access to power and resources available to society's dominant groups though they are not necessarily fewer in number than dominant groups
Genocide
The deliberate and systematic extermination of A racial ethnic natural or cultural group
Internal colonism
The economic and political subjugation of the minority group by the dominant group with in a nation
Population transfer
The forcible removal of a group of people from the territory they have occupied
Racial assimilation
The process by which racial minority groups are absorbed into the dominant group through intermarriage
Cultural assimilation
The process by which racial or ethnic groups are absorbency into the Dominant group by adopting the dominant groups culture
Embodied identity
Those elements of identity that are generated through other perceptions of our physical traits
Discrimination
Unequal treatment of individuals based on their membership and social group usually motivated by prejudice
Double consciousness
WEB duboiss term for the divided identity experienced by blacks in America