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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

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J3Xe1kX7Wschttp://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