RACE

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Chapter 9

• RACE ETHNICITY

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MINORITY-group with physical or cultural traits
that are different than dominant group

• 5 key features
• Distinct physical characteristics
• Dominated by majority
• Traits of minority assumed to be inferior
• Common sense of identity and loyalty
• Majority decides whos in the majority

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RACE

• Biologically inherited physcial characteristics
  considered important within a society
• Skin color, hair color, facial features
• 3 divisions
• Key problems?

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ETHNICITY-based on culture, religion, national
characteristics

• Subculture with own language, religion customs
• Part of larger culture but still separate
• ETHNOCENTRISM
• Examples?

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Assimilation-blending of minority groups into
dominant society

• THEORIES
• MELTING POT
• MIXING BOWL (PLURALISM)
• MULTI-CULTURALISM
• ACCOMODATION

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PATTERNS OF CONFLICT

• GENOCIDE
• SYSTEMATIAC EFFORT TO DESTROY ANOTHER GROUP
• POPULATION TRANSFER
• FORCED REMOVAL
• SUBJUGATION-MOST COMMON
• DENY EQUAL ACCESS TO CULTURE SOCIETY
• DE JURE
• PLESSY V. FERGUSON
• BROWN V. BOARD OF EDUCATION, 1954
• DE FACTO
• EVERYDAY PRACTICE OF DISCRIMINATION

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SIGNIFICANT TERMS

• PREJUDICE
• BIAS
• BASED ON STRONG EMOTION
• GENERALIZATION
• WIDELY HELD NEGATIVE ATTITUDE
• RACISM
• ASSUME SUPERIORITY
• JUSTIFY EXCLUSIONS

• DISCRIMINATION
• ACT ON BIASES
• HATE CRIMES
• EX Matt Shepard
• Increasing since 1990s
• STEREOTYPE
• Ideas based on exaggeration
• Justify discrimination

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3 key theories

• 1-FUNCTIONALISM
• DYSFUNCTION CAUSED BY RACISM
• CREATES INSTABILITY
• COSTS SOCIETY
• 2-CONFLICT
• PREJUDICE/DISCRIMINATION CONTROLS MINORITY

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SYMBOLIC INTERACTIONISM
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TERMS