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Chapter 10INEQUALITIES OF RACE AND
ETHNICITY
http://www.pbs.org/race/002_Sorting
People/002_00-home.htm
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MYTHS AND REALITIES
Reality: Race is a group of people with
inherited physical characteristics that
distinguish it from another group Myth 1: any race is superior to others
Myth 2: pureraces exist
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ETHNICITY
Collection of people distinguished primarily on the
basis of cultural or Nationality characteristics
An ethnicity has 5 main characteristics
Unique cultural traits
A sense of community
Feeling of ethnocentrism
Ascribed membership
Territoriality
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MINORITY AND DOMINANTGROUPS
Minority group--racial or ethnic group
subject to prejudice and discrimination
Dominant group--those that have morepower, privileges, and social status in a
society
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PREJUDICE ANDDISCRIMINATION
Prejudice--Negative attitudes based on
faulty generalizations about members of a
selected group Pre-judge means most often ideas are believed
before any contact with the group
Discrimination--an action carried out based
on prejudice attitudes
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RACISM
A set of attitudes, beliefs and practices
used to justify the superior treatment of one
racial or ethnic group and the inferiortreatment of and another group
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STEREOTYPING
Over-generalizing about appearance,
behavior, or other characteristics of
members of a group Rooted in ethnocentrism (seeing your
culture as the standardand superior)
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DISCRIMINATION
Individual Discrimination
One on one acts that harm the minority group or
their property
Institutional discrimination
Day-to-day practices that have a harmful effect
on members of the minority group
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FILM:
EYE OF THE STORM
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FUNCTIONALISTTERMINOLOGY ABOUT R&E
Assimilation--minorities adopt the dominant
groups culture
Amalgamation--subcultures are blendedtogether, forming a new culture
Cultural pluralism--multiculturalism--the
peaceful co-existence of various groups,each retaining its own subculture
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CONFLICT TERMINOLOGYABOUT R&E
Segregation
Expulsion
Extermination (genocide)
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SYMBOLIC INTERACTIONTERMINOLOGY ABOUT R&E
Perception
Interaction
Context
BogardusSocial Distance Scale
McIntoshs White Privilege Scale http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DRnoddGTMTY
Tim Wises White Privilege Speech
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J3Xe1kX7Wsc
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CAUSES OF PREJUDICE ANDDISCRIMINATION
Scapegoating (blaming others)
Sociological (socialization)
Economic (desire for jobs and profit) Political (maintaining governmental power)
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CONSEQUENCES OFDISCRIMATION
Quality of life
Desperation
Self-image