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Ch 8 Race Inequality Flashcards

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True or false, race is biologically meaningless

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True

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What is race?

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inherited physical characteristics that distinguish it from another group

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What is ethnicity?

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cultural characteristics and cultural heritage that distinguish groups

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What is ethnic belonging based on?

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Nation of origin

Family names

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Are minorities numerical minorities?

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Not always.

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What does WASP stand for?

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White anglosaxan prodistant

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According to Wagley and Harris, what are the five characteristics that minorities share?

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Ascribed status, given at birth
Traits that distinguish 
Members are treated unequally
Marry within own group 
Strong sense of community
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How does one become a minority?

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expansion of political boundaries (being incorporated into a new group) and migration.

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What is prejudice?

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a negative attitude
Prejudgment
Negative
Irrational, not based on evidence
Doesn't depend on Negative experiences
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What is is discrimination and what are the two types?

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action)
Denies or grants advantages to a particular group
Unfair treatment directed towards someone
Illegal

Individual and systemic

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What is systemic discrimination? Give an example as well

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broad patterns of discrimination and may be part of social policy. Eg. Residential school

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What are stereotypes?

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Over generalizations about a group of category of people

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What is the psychological perspective of predjudice?

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Transference of internal issues and frustrations to another person or group “scapegoat theory” by John dollar

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What did Theodor Adorno believe about prejudiced people and when/how do they develop this type of thinking?

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Highly predjudiced people tend to have a high authoritarian personality.

They all have these in common
	• Highly conformist
	• Rigid thinking
	• Highly insecure
	• Submissive to authority

They develop early in childhood when you have dominant parents that don’t provide emotional support

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What is the functionalist perspective of prejudice?

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Prejudice is functional, but can be dysfunctional
Shaped by social environment used to generate pos or negative feelings
Prejudice is benefiting someone, if it is dysfunctional, it effects all society

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What is the conflict perspective of prejudice?

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Use discrimination to prevent workers from uniting, and to protect power

Unemployment is used to have a reserve of workers

Use internal colonialism

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What is internal colonialism?

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minorities economically, politically, and socially controlled and exploited (aboriginals)

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What is the symbolic interactionist perspective of prejudice?

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We are taught prejudice, Labels colour the way we see the world and allow for selective perception– the ability to see certain things and be blind to others

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Explain the self-fulfilling prophecy of prejudice (symbolic interactionist)

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stereotypes we learn some,times actually produce the behaviour they depict

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Identify the 6 parts of the interaction continuum

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Genocide, population transfer, internal colonialism, segregation, assimilation, and multiculturalism

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What is genocide?

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Getting rid of the minority

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What is population transfer?

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The dominant group expels the minority

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What is segregation?

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Minimizing contact with the minority

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What are the four groups of the Canadian population?

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British, French, aboriginals, and other immigrants

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What percentage of the Canadian population do aboriginals make up?
4%
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What is the only Provence without a native reserve?
Newfoundland
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What percentage of our population is made up of francophones?
23%
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According to John porter, what are the two charter groups?
French and British
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When was the quiet revolution, and what did it mean for Quebec?
1960s, intense change, rise of Quebec nationalism, secularization of social institutions
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True or false, Until 1946 all Canadians were considered British subjects residing in Canada
True
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What percentage do other immigrants make up Canada's population?
20.6
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What year was the immigration act changed?
1962
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Price to reasons why we need immigrants
To continue economic prosperity, and we have an increasing aging population
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At what rate should we be replacing the aging in Canada, and what are we at now?
2.1, we are at 1.5
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How do race and ethnicity differ?
Race is physical characteristics, ethnicity are cultural characteristics
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Are prejudice and discrimination the same thing?
Prejudice is an attitude, discrimination is an act some people who are prejudiced do not discriminate
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What is institutional discrimination?
Discrimination woven into society so much that it becomes routine
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What is the postmodernism theory of race inequality?
Only those who directly experience racism and discrimination can understand what it means to be black or whatever
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What is the post colonialism theory or race inequality?
It refers to countries that are no longer colonial, and it speaks for how their language and culture has being affected by colonialism.
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What is the critical race theory of race inequality?
Peoples stories are considered empirical evidence
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Who defined a minority group as "people who are singled out for unequal treatment, and who regard themselves as objects of collective discrimination"?
Wirth
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Who created the 5 characteristics that all ,inori yes share worldwide?
Charles wagley and Marvin Harris
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What is Eugene Hartley known for?
The study of ethnic groups, making up 3 and asking people what they thought of them
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What does compartmentalize mean?
To separate acts from feelings that would threaten their self concept and would make it difficult to participate in genocide
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What is a dual labour market?
Workers divided along racial, ethnic, and gender lines, typically one type of ethnicity gets the job and others are kept on reserve
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What are the 4 things one must have/be to be considered a native with the Indian act (1896)
1) admitted to general registry of Ottawa 2) be affiliated with one of the 622 bands 3) be allowed to live on a reserve 4) come under the Indian act
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Why don't all Indians want to be a part of the Indian act?
Some land claims are not recognized by the provincial gov't

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