Chapter 10 Flashcards
Race
People who share physical characteristics such as skin color and facial features, that are passed on through reproduction
Ethnic group
Group of people who identify with a common national origin or culture heritage that includes language, geographic roots, food, custom, traditions and or religion
Racial-ethnic group
People who have distinctive physical and cultural characteristics
Dominate group
Any physically or culturally distinctive group that has the most economic and political power, the greatest privileges and the highest social status
Apartheid
A formal system of racial segregation
Minority
Group of people who may be subjected to differential and unequal treatment because of their physical cultural or other characteristic such as sex sexual orientation..etc
Genocide
Systematic effort to kill all members of a particular ethnic religious political racial or national group
Assimilation
A dominate group absorbs minority groups (through interracial and interethnic marriages)
Pluralism
There is no dominant group because all groups share power and other resources fairly equally
Segregation
Physical and social seperation of dominant and minority groups
Racism
Set of beliefs that ones own racial group is naturally superior to other groups
prejudice
An attitude, positive or negative, towards people because of their groups membership
Sterotype
An oversimplified or exaggerated generalization about a category of people
Ethnocentrism
The belief that ones own culture, society, or group is inherently superior to others
Scapegoats
Individuals or groups whom people blame for their own problems or shortcoming
