Chapter 9: Race & Ethnicity

Question 0

Ethnic work

Answer 0

Activities designed to discover, enchanted, maintain, or transmit an ethic or racial identity

Question 1

Genocide

Answer 1

The annihilation of a people because of their race or ethnicity

Question 2

Ethnicity

Answer 2

Having distinct cultural characteristics

Question 3

Minority group

Answer 3

People who are singled out for unequal treatment and who regard themselves as objects of discrimination

Question 4

Dominant group

Answer 4

The group with the most power, greatest privileges, and highest social status

Question 5

Melting pot

Answer 5

The idea that the United States would act as a “melting pot”, where different ethnicities and races can blend together

Question 6

Discrimination

Answer 6

Unfair treatment against an individual or group

Question 7

racism

Answer 7

Prejudice & discrimination on the basis of race

Question 8

Prejudice

Answer 8

An attitude or prejudging

Question 9

Individual discrimination

Answer 9

Person to person discrimination

Question 10

Institutional discrimination

Answer 10

Negative treatment of a minority group that is built into a society’s institutions

Question 11

Authoritarian personality

Answer 11

Theodor Adorno’s term for people who are prejudiced and rank high on scales of conformity, intolerance, insecurity

Question 12

Reserve labor force

Answer 12

The unemployed; people who are hired during economic booms and then are laid off when they no longer need them

Question 13

Selective perception

Answer 13

Seeing certain features of an object or situation, but remaining blind to others

Question 14

Segregation

Answer 14

Keeping racial-ethnic groups apart

Question 15

Internal colonialism

Answer 15

Policy of exploiting minority groups for economic gain.