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exam 5 (final) Flashcards

1
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difference between prejudiced and discrimination

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prejudice is an attitude and discrimination is an action

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2
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refusing to hire a person of color

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discrimination

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3
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another word for blocked assimilation

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segregation

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4
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where is blocked assimilation on the inclusive exclusive scale

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in the middle

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5
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systematic killing of people that are different

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genocide

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6
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most exclusive to most inclusive

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  • genocide
  • internal colonialism
  • blocked assimilation
  • assimilation
  • ethnic pluralism
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7
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examples of internal colonialism

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trail of tears (putting native americans on reservations), slavery, Japanese internment camps

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trail of tears is an example of which two terms

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genocide and internal colonialism

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what refers to the process of being absorbed into the mainstream culture

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assimilation

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10
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summarizing a person by their membership in a particular group with out taking in to account their individual characteristics

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stereotyping (ex. portraying latinos in a video game as violent criminals)

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11
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what percent of south carolinians wanted to keep the law against miscegenation

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40%

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what does miscegenation refer to

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interracial marriage

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13
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example of a white ethnic group that has experienced considerable discrimination in America in the past

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irish, italians, european groups, people who couldn’t speak english

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14
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what does red lining refer to

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the idea that the FHA (federal housing authority) was going to give loans to people, especially soldiers after WWII, to buy houses. in order to do so they had to map out which neighborhoods were safe to give loans to. the neighborhoods that had a lot of minorities had red lines drawn around them

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15
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what type of discrimination is red lining

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institutionalized discrimination

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16
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about how many million americans identify as more than one race

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9 million

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17
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what do we call the scale that has been developed to measure willingness to interact with racial or ethnic groups different from ones own

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social distance scale

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18
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scapegoating

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minorities taking the blame for things they can’t even stand up for themselves about

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last state to get rid of miscegenation laws

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alabama

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20
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science on race/one drop rule

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eugenics which claimed to be based in genetics and heredity and really was used to justify a lot of racist practices/idea that you can categorize people based on their blood. these ideas were all believed to be scientific at one time and were used to justify white privilege

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21
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gender pay gap

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men and women start at the same point, they both increase over time, gap is narrower between ages 16-25, men increase faster than women so the gap keeps getting bigger and bigger until it levels off around 65 years old

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22
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if race is socially constructed why do we still study it

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because it still matters, we live racially structured lives. these lives relate to social inequalities. who gets what, who does what, and they affect peoples life chances

23
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symbolic ethnicity

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relates mostly to white people and their ability to be ethnic if they want to or not. ex: mom traces back and finds you come from england, you can be proud of your heritage and show it but you also don’t have to. you have the choice

24
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who came up with the frustration aggression hypothesis and what is it

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dollard-the idea that prejudice is a result of frustration and is caused by lack of access to things

25
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who came up with the authoritarian personality and what is it

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adorno-idea that people who are prejudice are really likely to also be highly susceptible to authority/to be conformists

26
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how does the capitalist class benefit from being prejudice and from racism

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by splitting workers up based along racial and ethnic lines

27
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split labor theory

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the labor market as a whole tends to be split somewhat along racial lines with a lot of people of color working in lower positions and white people working in higher positions

28
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who is more likely to be prejudiced

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older, uneducated people in lower and working class

29
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critical race theory

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changing laws is fine, but changing laws is not going to solve all problems because so much of the racism that happens is subtle racism and it’s embedded in our culture

30
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fear of foreign people

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xenophobia

31
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sexy lie

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objectification is empowering

32
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dominant group

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group in power, power to set agendas and make laws and run businesses

33
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minority group

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does not mean they have the least number of people, just the last amount of power

34
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cult of domesticity

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women are supposed to be submissive to their husbands and be home makers, used to be thought to be empowering to work in the home

35
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approximately what percent of sexually objectified bodies in the media are female bodies

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96%

36
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sexual objectification

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transforming someone from a subject to an object

37
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about how many sexualized body ads do we see a day

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5000

38
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1 in how many women will be sexually assaulted in their lifetime

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3

39
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1 in how many women will be sexually assaulted in college

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4

40
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human capital model

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50% of the variation of the difference is not accounted for in the model therefore it must be discrimination

41
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second shift

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women are expected to go to work and then come home to work again

42
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who is more likely to get a bachelors degree

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women

43
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who is more likely to go to graduate school

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men

44
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same job and same education level

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pay gap still exists

45
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conflict perspectives on race and class

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segregation and racism benefit the dominant group because it allows the dominant group to exploit the labor market while still maintaining social distance from minority groups

46
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gender identity does not match their assigned sex

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transgender

47
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pseudoscientific idea about race

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eugenics

48
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latinos and blacks portrayed as violent criminals

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stereotyping

49
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if your restaurant refuses to serve latinos that is

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discrimination

50
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are people who are prejudiced against one group likely to be only prejudiced towards them or to other groups as well?

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other groups as well (ex. people said they were prejudiced towards a fake ethnic group called wallonians)

51
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who was more likely to help the shopper in the “shopping while black video”

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the people of color

52
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who has higher GPAs

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girls

53
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who has higher standardized test scores

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boys

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