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Sociology Guide April3 Part 5

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Racializationthe formation of a new racial identity in which new ideological boundaries of difference are drawn around a formerly unnotices group of people.
EugenicsScience of genetic lines and the inheritable traits they pass on from generation to generation
Bred into populationsfor positive traits
Bred out of populationsfor negative traits
Social DarwinismNotion that some groups or races evolved more thatn others and were better fit to survive and even rule other races.
Ethnocentrismthe judgement of other groups by one's own standards and values
Racismthe belief that members of separate races possess different and unequal human traits
Race is imposedusually based on physical differences, hierarchial, exclusive, and unequal
Ethnicity isvoluntary, self-defined, nonhierarchical, fluid, cultural, and not so closely linked with power differences
An ethnic identity becomes racialized when it issubsumed under a force label, racial marker or otherness
Symbolic ethnicityis ethnicity that is individualistic in nature and without real social cost for the individual
Pluralismrefers to the presence and engaged coexistence of numerous distinct groups in one society, with no one group being in the majority
Segregationthe legal or social practice of separating people on the basis of their race or ethnicity
Segregation is illegal and is stillevident in schools, housing, and prisons
Prejudicerefers to negative thoughts and feelings about an ethnic or racial group.


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