Ch 11 - Race and Ethnicity

Question 1

Race

Answer 1

Socially constructed category of people who share biologically transmitted traits that a society considers important

Question 2

Ethnicity

Answer 2

Shared cultural heritage

Question 3

Prejudice

Answer 3

Rigid and unfair generalization about an entire category of people

Question 4

Racism

Answer 4

Belief that one racial category is superior or inferior to another

Question 5

Scapegoat

Answer 5

A person or category of people who are unfairly blamed for their own troubles

Question 6

Discrimination

Answer 6

Unequal treatment of categories of people

Question 7

Institutional Prejudice and Discrimination

Answer 7

Bias built into the operation of a society’s institutions, including schools, hospitals, the police, and workplace.

Question 8

Pluralism

Answer 8

A state in which all races and ethnicities are distinct but have equal social standing

Question 9

Assimilation

Answer 9

Process where minorities adopt the patterns of the dominant culture

Question 10

Miscegenation

Answer 10

Biological reproduction by partners of different categories

Question 11

Segregation

Answer 11

Physical and Social separation of categories of people

Question 12

Genocide

Answer 12

Systematic killing of one category of people

Question 13

Patterns of interaction between racial and ethnic categories

Answer 13

1. Pluralism
2. Assimilation
3. Segregation
4. Genocide