Chapter 9 Racial and Ethnic Minorities
Terms
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- A category of people who are defined as similar because of a number of physical characteristics
- Race
- A group with a distinct cultural tradition with which its own members identify and that may or may not be recognized by others
- Ethnic Group
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A group of people who, because of physical or cultural characteristics, are singled out for differential and unequal treatment and who therefore regard themselves as objects of collective discrimination.
Who came up with this definition? -
Minority
Louis Wirth - An irrationally based negative, or occasionally positive, attitude toward certain groups and their members
- Prejudice
- Differential treatment, usually unequal and injurious, accorded to individuals who are assumed to belong to a particular category or group
- Discrimination
- The process of forcing a group to leave the territory in which it lives
- Explusion
- The process wherby groups with different cultures come to share a common culture
- Assimilation
- The renounciation of other ancestral cultures in favor of Anglo-American behavior and values
- Anglo conformity
- The development and coexistence of seperate racial and ethnic group identities within a society
- Pluralism
- The act, process, or state of being set apart.
- Segregation
- Eighteenth-century German physiologist who realized that racial categories did not reflect the actual divisions among human groups
- Johann Blumenbach
- Show that there are various ways in which prejudice and discrimination can interact with each other
- Robert K. Merton
- Argued in The Bell Curve that members of a cognitive elite were becoming the leaders of America
- Herrnstein and Murray
- Developed a definition of minority group that considers only race and ethnic status
- Louis Wirth
- Stated that a program for Native Americans must include progressive measures for their complete integration as tax-paying members of the larger society
- Hoover Commission
- Principally responsible for the development of the theory of cultural pluralism
- Horace Kallen
- Proposed that dominance of one group over another arises because people have a desire to control goods and services
- Gerhard Lenski
- Wondered in 1753 about the costs and benefits to the United States of German immigration and concluded Germans would "contribute greatly to the improvement of a country."
- Benjamin Franklin
- These people are neither prejudiced against the members of other racial or ethnic groups, nor do they practice discrimination.
- Unprejudiced Nondiscriminators
- This individual classified racial prejudice and discrimination by people into 4 categories
- Robert K. Merton
- This type of person includes those who constantly think of expediency. Though they themselves are fee from racial prejudice, they will keep silent when bigots speak out.
- Unprejudiced Discrimnators
- This individual is for timid bigots who do not accept the ideal equality for all but conform to it and give it lip service when the slightest pressure is applied.
- Prejudiced Nondiscriminators
- These are the bigots pure and unashamed
- Prejudiced Discriminators
- Complex societal arrangements that restrict the life chances and choices of a specifically defined group in comparison with those of the dominant group.
- institutionalized prejudice and discrimination
- The subordination of one group and the assumption of a position of authority, power and domination by the other.
- Subjugation
- Does prejudice always result in discrimination?
- No
- The migration of people from northern Europe who came before the 1880s
- Old Migration
- The migration of people from southern and eastern Europe who came between 1880 and 1920
- The new Migration
- African Americans represent the _____________largest race/ethnic group in the United States.
- Third
- In relation to tge average age, the Jewish population is_____than most U.S. ETHNIC GROUPS
- older
- African Americans compise approximately ____ of the total U.S. population.
- 12%
- Hispanics Compise ____ of the total U.S. population
- 13%
- According to Census 2000, one-third of the foreign-born population was from
- Mexico or a Central American country
- Discrimination is best understood as an especially bad form of prejudice
- false