| A | B |
|---|
| cultural pluralism | ethnic and racial variety are encouraged |
| assimilation | culturally distinct groups blended into a single group with common culture |
| segregation | minority group physically separated from the dominant group |
| subjugation | dominant group controls every aspect of minority group life through force |
| extermination | dominant group attempts to destroy minority group ( ex. include genocide and ethnic cleansing) |
| timid bigot | prejudiced person who does not discriminate |
| active bigot | prejudiced person who discriminates |
| all weather liberal | non prejudiced person who doesn't discriminate |
| fair weather liberal | non prejudice person who discriminates |
| genocide | attempt to destroy the entire targeted population |
| ethnic cleansing | is removing a group through terror, expulsion and mass murder |
| Af. Ams. | lagging in education and income; 2nd largest minority; made civil rights gains in the 50 & 60s |
| Hispanics | rapidly growing population. trailing in income |
| Asian Ams | model minority ; succeeded and financially; 1st gen sometimes poor but 2nd gen, successful |
| Am. Indians | granted citizenship in 1924; struggles with alcoholism; high poverty and poor ed. encouraged to assimilate; |
| White Ethnics | this collective name for 1800s immigrants who faced discrimination as a result of their cultural and economic beliefs (not physical differences) |
| Japanese Americans | Asian Ams who were put into internment camps during WWII |
| prejudice | unsupported generalization about a category of people |
| discrimination | denial of equal treatment to individual based on group memberships |
| stereotype | oversimplified, exagerated or unfavorable generalization about a group of people |
| Gunnar Myrdal | sociologist who proposed the American dilemma |
| American Dilemma | gap that exists between what Ams claim to believe and how they actually behave |
| race | is a category of people who share inherited physical characteristic who others see as being a distinct group |
| ethnicity | set of cultural charactersistics that disinguishes one group form another |
| ethnic group | people who share common culutral backgournd and a common sense of identity |
| minority group | a group of people who are singled out because of physical or cultural traits |
| institutional discrimination | unequal treatment of a group that is an outgrowth of the sturcture of a society |
| self fulfilling prophecy | a prediction that results in behavior that makes the preciction come true |
| racism | prejudicial belief that serves as justificiation for open discrimination o |
| scapegoating | practice of placing the blame for one's troubele s on an innocent ind. or group |
| legal discrimination | South Africa's system of Apartheid is an example of this as it is set up by their laws |
| dejure segregation | segragation set up by law |
| defacto segregation | segregation set up by social norms |
| slavery | ownership of one person by another ( most extreme form of subjugation |
| WASP | white Anglo Saxon Protestant |
| authoritarian personality | According to Adorno this personality often causes the anger and frustration that leads to scapegoating |
| sociological explanation | prej. may be embedded in the social norms of a society or group . People become prejudiced by internalizing these norms |
| psychological explanation | discrimination and prejudice result from individual behavior |
| economic explanation | prejudice and discrimination arise out of competition for scarce resources |
| Caucasoid | race of people generally characterized by fair skin and straight or wavy hair |
| Mongoloid | race of people generally characterized by yellowish or brownish skin and distinct folds on their eyelids |
| Negroid | race of people generally characterized by dark skin and tightly curled hair |
| Apartheid | S. African govt where controlled the black majority of the population |
| Plessy v. Ferguson | legalized segregation |
| Brown v. Board of Education | court case that forced integration in 1954 |
| Robert Merton | sociologist who developed the patterns of prejudice and discrimination grid |
