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| physical characteristics of a person. |
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| Perceived cultural differences between groups |
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| Historical legacy one is born with |
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| Specific behaviors to show/develop ethnicity |
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| Attitudes and beliefs involving a tendency to pre-judge people, usually negatively and on the basis of a single personal characteristic. |
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| Tendency to think of or react to everyone in the same category in a fixed way. |
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| Exaggerated belief associated with those in a select category that is generalized to all. |
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| Tendency to view one's own group as the norm and other groups not only as different, but as inferior. |
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| Taking out frustrations on someone else. |
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| Projecting characteristics on someone else by taking own negative traits in oneself and giving them to another while denying these traits in you. |
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Process of social interaction through which people acquire personality and learn the ways of a society/group.
(learn how to react/act, transmission of values) |
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| People we have contact with and whose judgements are important to us. |
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| 1) feeling of superiority 2) feeling that subordinate race is intrinsically different 3) feeling of claim to certain areas of privilee/advantage 4) fear that subordinate groups harbor designs on dominant race. |
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| Act, practice or an instance of treating differently based on category rather than individually. |
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| (funct.) Unequal distribution of scare resources (wealth, power, income) based on race/ethnicity. |
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| Noel's Origin of Ethnic Stratification |
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| (funct.) 3 conditions for racial stratification: ethnocentrism, competition and unequal power. |
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| (funct.) Inequality inevitable as long as there is diversity in society. |
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| Gordon's Three Images of Assimilation |
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| (funct.)Melting Pot, Cultural Pluralism, Anglo conformity. |
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| Selfish Gene Theory (biosocial) |
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| (funct.) Racial tensions result as we protect our kinship ties. |
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| (funct.) Competition occurs when two groups attempt to secure the same resources (stability occurs with national bounds, and migration disrupts this.) |
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| (conflict) Racism is a mechanism used by wealthy to prevent workers from recognizing group consciousness. |
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| Split Labor Market Theory |
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| Class and race are basis of social inequality. Middle class majority demands discrimination to protect its middle status. |
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| Inequality results from a dominant racial group that establishes a system of racial inequality for its own benefit. |
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| Three Common Patterns in Race Relations |
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1) Paternalistic -- caste system
2) Rigid Competitive -- Social status determined by race, but there is a perception of competition among races.
3) Fluid Competitive -- Theoretically members of society are judged by merit. |
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