Sociology Chapter 9

How's discrimination related to prejudice

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The dominant group commonly discriminates against minorities

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Unemployment rates of whites and African Americans

African American unemployment rates are higher than whites

Examples of institutionalized discrimination

African American's requirements to vote in the South

Minorities in the U.S. today

African, Hispanic, and Native American

Group that's an example of the accommodation pattern of assimilation

Amish

Pattern of assimilation that occurred most commonly among German immigrants

Anglo-assimilation

Group referred to as the "invisible minority"

Native Americans

Group that has the lowest annual income

Native Americans

Anglo's ancestors came from where

Northern and Western Europe

White southerners believe African Americans are inferior to whites

White southerners believe African Americans are inferior to whites

"melting pot"

all ethnic and racial minorities voluntarily blend together

accommodation

an extreme form of cultural pluralism

Process of being absorbed into mainstream culture

assimilation

Examples of hate crime

beating up a gay kid

Facts about people who're racists

belief that your race is superior

Ethnic minorities are recognized

by their culture

Symbolic interactionist view of prejudice and discrimination

children aren't taught to be prejudice

Examples of institutionalized discrimination

country won't allow non-citizens to own property

Frequency of genocide in the world today

does occur

Functionalist perspective of prejudice and discrimination

dominant group feels superior to the minority, it's member self-concepts are strengthened

One of two things take place when minority groups enter the U.S.

either assimilated or rejected

Know some facts WASP's

embraced whites from other European nations helping them assimilate

Jews in the U.S. are classified as what type of minority

ethnic

Frequency of prejudice and discrimination in societies and U.S. society

exists in every society

Patterns of conflict

genocide, population transfer, subjugation

ethnic minority

group identified by cultural, religious, or national characteristics

Groups that are considered Latinos

group whose parents or themselves were born in Latin America

Facts about Asian Americans

grow up in tightened family, successful, and suffered discrimination, and prejudice

What makes a group a minority

if they're dominated by another group

Anglo-conformity

immigrants conform to the standard majority of whites

Facts about African Americans

income increases with some education, but at a slower rate than whites

Genocide

killing and entire race, Nazi Germany

Symbolic interactionists view prejudiced people

learn their prejudice in through their interactions with other

Tossed salad pattern of assimilation

let's the minority keep some of their culture

Conflict theory states about prejudice and discrimination

majority uses prejudice and discrimination to control a majority

Symbolic interactionism states

members of a society learn to be prejudice which they learn their other values

Anglo-Assimilation

minority group blends into the culture of the majority group

population transfer

minority is forced either to move to a remote location of to leave entirely the territory controlled by the majority

Types that commit hate crimes

more ethnocentric a person is, more likely to commit hate crime

subjugation

most common pattern of conflict

Important characteristic of a minority

must be dominated by the majority

Times genocide has occurred in history

often

Who're members of an ethnic minority

people who came from Europe

Example of hidden unemployment

people who're unemployed but no longer looking for a job

Example of a self-fulfilling prophecy

person who has good grades in high school does well in college

racial minority

physical characteristics

Why African Americans haven't assimilated into America as easy as other minorities

physical characteristics makes them easily identifiable

Prejudice is

positive or negative attitude (thoughts) that's often the basis of discrimination

Reasons people discriminate

race, religion, sexuality, ethnicity

Minorities that are defined by physical characteristics

racial minority

How dominant cultures reject minority groups

segregation

segregation

social system that provides separate facilities for minority groups

How Latinos are distinguished from other ethnic minorities in the U.S.

speak English

Certain race of ethnicity is supposed to be great in certain sports is an example of

stereotype

Primary pattern the majority dealt with African Americans who came to U.S. as slaves

subjugation

genocide

systematic effort to destroy an entire population

The term Anglo refers to

those people whose ancestors were from England

Common pattern of assimilation in the U.S.

tossed salad

discrimination

treating people different because of their religion or culture

What makes a criminal act a hate crime

when a criminal is carried out specifically because of race, sex or other things of that nature

de facto and de jure segregation

when a minority group is denied access to society's institution by law, de facto, of de jure

"tossed salad"

which traditions and cultures exist side by side

prejudice

widely held negative attitudes toward a group and its individual members