Sociology Final Exam 2/2
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- Minority groups are ususally the products of...
- Migration
- Any group in a society that consists of people who are identified by some biological, social, or cultural trait and who are singled out as objects of prejudice and descrimination
- Minority
- Difference between minority and majority group is determined by how much _____ _____ they hold
- Social Power
- Terms suggested rather than majority and minority
- Dominant and Subordinate
- 2 categories to discriminate by
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Culturally - hair, dress
Biologically - skin color, hair texture - Groups with distinctive social and cultural characteristics
- Ethnic Groups
- Groups with distinctive physical characteristics
- Racial Group
- Any group that is socially distinguished from other groups, has developed a distinct subculture, and has 'a shared feeling of peoplehood'
- Ethnic Group
- Group of people who are believed to share certain physical traits and to be genetically distinct
- Race
- Examples of Ethnic groups:
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Jews
Italian-Americans - Examples of Race (There are 10 total):
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Native American
African American
Asian-American
Hispanic - What is the dominant majority structure made up of?
- White Anglo-Saxon Protestants
- What does WASP stand for?
- White Anglo-Saxon Protestants
- What stimulated the immigration of Mexicans to the United States?
- Demand for cheap labor
- What even led to Puerto Ricans moving to the US in 1898?
- American annexation of Puerto Rico after the Spanish-American War
- Where do most Puerto Ricans live?
- NYC
- Where do most Mexican Americans live?
- Southwestern states of Texas, Arizona, Colorado, New Mexico, and California
- Why did Cuban-Americans come to the US
- To escape Fidel Castro
- Where did most Cuban-Americans reside?
- Florida
- European immigrants who came from countries other than the UK
- White Ethnics
- What group is most neglected in the US?
- Native Americans
- Simplified generalization applied to an entire category of people, objects, or situations
- Stereotype
- The judgment of people, objects, or situations in a stereotypical way
- Prejudice
- Unfair treatment of people because of the groups or categories of which they are members
- Discrimination
- Absorption of an incoming group into the dominant society
- Assimilation
- Occurs when an immigrant group gives up much of its traditional culture
- Cultural Assimilation
- When memebers of minority group are fully accepted into the schools, business, neighborhoods of dominant group (lengthy process)
- Structural Assimilation
- Theory that states that all America's ethnic subcultures are believed to have blended to form an entirely new culture
- Melting Pot Theory
- Biologically merging of an ethnic or racial group with the dominant population
- Amalgamation
- Pattern in which minorities achieve full participation in the dominant society yet retain many of their cultural and social differences
- Cultural Pluralism
- The 3 patterns of acceptance are
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Assimilation
Amalgamation
Cultural Pluralism - Process by which the dominant group causes the deaths of large numbers of minority group members
- Annihilation
- Deliberate and systematic destruction of an entire ethnic or racial group
- Genocide
- Forcing of a people out of an area or society
- Expulsion
- When the US Army forced Cherokees to move from Georgia to Oklahoma...
- Trail of Tears
- reorganization of a nation in order to make political boundries correspond more closely to ethnic or racial boundries
- Partition
- Seperation of residential areas, institutions, or other facilities on the basis of the ethnic or racial characteristics of the people using them.
- Segregation
- What functions does the family perform?
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Socialization
Affection and Companionship
Sexual Regulation
Economic Cooperation - A relatively small domestic group of kin
- Family
- The family into which a person is born
- Family of Orientation
- Family that people create when they marry and have children
- Family of Procreation
- 2 generation family group that consists of a couple and their children, usually living apart from their relatives
- Nuclear family
- Family group that consists of 3 or more generations
- Extended family
- Husband-wife relationship of family
- Conjugal family
- Emphesis on the 'blood ties' with various relatives
- Consanguine family
- Family structure in which most of the authority is held by the oldest male
- Patriarchal family
- Family structure in which most of authority is in hands of oldest female
- Matriarchal Family
- Family in which a woman is the central and most important figue
- Matrifocal family
- Family where hisband and wife share equal authority
- Egalitarian family
- When a married couple lives in the household/community of the husband's parents
- Patrilocal residence
- When a married couple lives in the household/community of the wife's parents
- Matrilocal residence
- When a married couple lives apart from both parents
- Neolocal residence
- Pattern of marriage between individuals having similar social characteristics
- Homogamy
- How long does it take for a blended family to develop identity?
- 3 to 6 years
- Most common type of abuse in families is
- Sibling abuse
- Most common form of religion in Western society
- Theism
- Which of the following is a religion of transcendental idealism?
- Confucianism
- Shintoism is a form of religion that
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Is practived largely in Japan
Glorifies one's ancestors
Makes duty toward one's parents the center of religious feelings - Worship or veneration of an animal as both a god and an ancestor
- Totemism
- Religion is important in the lives of believers because it:
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Helps people develop sense of identity
Gives meaning to human existance
Helps people during crisis - An established pattern of behavior closely associated with the experience of the sacred
- Ritual
- The Protestant Reformation began as a:
- Doctrinal dispute among a group of Catholic clergymen
- The form of religion based on a new revelation is a
- Cult
- When a religion is the official one in the society, it is called
- Ecclesia
- System of beliefs and practices by which a group of people interprets and responds to what they feel is sacred and supernatural
- Religion
- Belief that cannot be supported or disproved by scientific eveidence
- Faith
- Belief on a god or gods
- Theism
- Religions that do not worship a god but center on a set of moral or ethical values
- Trancendental idealism
- What is the oldest religion?
- Hinduism
- What are the 2 most popular religios groups?
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Christians
Muslims - Ceremonies marking major transitional events in an individual's life (birth, marriage, death)
- Rites of Passage
- Consists of all the elements of everyday life that are considered part of the ordinary physical world
- Profane
- Anything set apart from everyday life that is capable of evoking deep respect and awe
- Sacred