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A socially constructed category of people who share biologically transmitted traits that members of a society consider important

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Race

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What is the classification of race based on?

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Physical characteristics

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What does it mean to say that race is a socially constructed concept?

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Race comes into being when the members of a society decide that some particular trait is actually important

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What are the four racial categories that Americans tend to see?

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Black, White, Asian, and Hispanic

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How many single race options are on the US census?

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How many multiracial options are on the US census?

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57

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People with light skin and fine hair

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Caucasoid

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People with darker skin and coarse hair

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Negroid

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People with yellow or brown skin and distinctive folds on eyelids

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Mongoloid

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Why do sociologists consider the terms caucasoid/negroid/mongoloid misleading?

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-No one society contains biologically pue people
-Great variations of physical characteristics exist among similar groups
-There is some overlap of physical characteristics between groups

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What do categories of race allow people to do?

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Rank people in a hierarchy (stratification)

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A shared cultural heritage (not necessarily focused on biological factors)

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Ethnicity

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People define themselves as members of a category based on common ancestry, language, and religion that give them a distinctive social identity

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Ethnic category

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People who have a common history and identity, shared customs, language, and religion; people who see themselves as, or are seen by others as, distinct group

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Ethnic group

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The notion that a small amount of African heritage makes an individual wholly black

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One-Drop rule

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A rigid and unfair generalization about an entire category of people; based on scant or incorrect information

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Prejudice

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Prejudgements that exaggerate the virtues of people like ourselves

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Positive prejudice

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Prejudgement that condemn those who are different from us

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Negative prejudice

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Simplified description applied to everyone in a category

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Stereotype

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Who developed the social distance scale?

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Emory Bogardus

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Measures how closely people are willing to interact with members of some category

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Social distance scale

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The belief that one racial category is innately superior or inferior to another

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Racism

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What are the four theories of prejudice?

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Scapegoat theory, authoritarian personality, culture theory, and conflict theory

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Person or category of people, typically with little power, whom other people unfairly blame for their own troubles

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Scapegoat theory

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People who rigidly conform to conventional cultural values and see moral issues as clear-cut matters of right and wrong
Authoritarian personality
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Some prejudice is found in everyone because prejudice is part of every culture
Culture theory
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Conflict theory
Prejudice is tool of powerful people to oppress others
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Unequal treatment of various categories of people
Discrimination
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Discriminatory treatment of certain people that is built into a social system; may not intend to discriminate
Institutional discrimination
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Who formulated a model showing the possible relationship between prejudice and discrimination?
Robert Merton
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This person is neither prejudiced nor practices discrimination
Non-prejudiced non-discriminator (All weather liberal)
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This person may be free of prejudice, but they will join clubs that exclude people who belong to out-groups, along with other discriminatory measures; often feel guilt because they are acting against their beliefs
Non-prejudiced discriminator (Fair weather liberal)
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This person will believe in many of the stereotypes about other groups and definitely feel hostility toward these groups; however, they keep silent in the presence of those who are more tolerant
Prejudiced non-discriminator (Timid bigots)
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This person openly expresses their beliefs, practices discrimination, and defies law if necessary, but they consider such conduct virtuous
Prejudiced discriminator (Active bigot)
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The greater number of people
Majority
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Any category that a society sets apart and subordinates (smaller in number)
Minority
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What are the theories of minority integration?
Assimilation, Amalgamation, and Accommodation
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The process by which minorities gradually adopt patterns of the dominant culture
Assimilation theory
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Claims that all diverse peoples blend their biological and cultural differences into an altogether new breed- the American
Amalgamation theory
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A state in which people of all races and ethnicities are distinct but have equal social standing (pluralism)
Accommodation theory
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Biological reproduction by partners of different categories
Miscegenation
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The physical and social separation of categories of people
Segregation
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The systematic killing of one category of people by another
Genocide
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Biological distinction between male and female
Sex
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The personal traits and social positions of members of society attach to being male or female
Gender
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Ideal or appropriate behavior for a person of a specific gender
Gender roles
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Argues that girls and boys are actively involved in constructing their own gendered identities
Gender theory
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Who said that culture is key to gender distinctions; if gender is culturally constructed, then concepts of "male" and "female" should vary by location
Margaret Mead
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The unequal distribution of wealth, power, and privilege between men and women
Gender stratification
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A form of social organization in which females dominate males
Matriarchy
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A form of social organization in which males dominate females
Patriarchy
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The belief that one sex is innately superior to the other
Sexism
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Explain the Pink World and Blue World
At birth, girls are handled gently, and boys are handled more aggressively
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The female world revolves around what?
Cooperation and emotion
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The male world revolves around what?
Independence and action
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What percentage of males and females work today?
71% of males, 67% of females
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What percentage of jobs are held by women and men, respectively?
47% for women, 53% for men
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What are some factors that contributed to a change in work force?
-Decline in farming -Growth of cities -Shrinking family size -Rising divorce rate
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What are considered pink collar jobs?
Administrative support work
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Why are women kept out of jobs?
-Some work is defined as a "man's" -Women are defined as less competent -Glass ceiling
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What is the main reason women earn less?
They work jobs that pay less
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Comments, gestures, or physical contact of a sexual nature that are deliberate, repeated, and unwelcome
Sexual harassment
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An analysis of interplay of race, class, and gender, which often results in multiple dimensions of disadvantage
Intersection theory (intersectionality)
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The support of social equality for women and men, in opposition to patriarchy and sexism
Feminism
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A particular approach to achieving equality between men and women that emphasizes the power of an individual person to alter discriminatory practices against women
Liberal feminism
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Argue that liberation can only be achiefved by working to end both the economic and cultural sources of women's oppression
Socialist feminism
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The perspective within feminism calls for a radical reordering of society in which male supremacy is eliminated in all social and economic contexts. Violence if necessary.
Radical feminism
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The idea that people are inclined to form social groups, incorporate group membership into their identity, take steps to enforce group boundaries, and maximize positive distinction and in-group succeess
Social identity theory
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A law limiting legal recognition of American Indians to those who have at least a certain level of documented indigenous ancestry
Blood quantum rule
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The idea that people come in two and only two types, males who are masculine, and females who are feminine
Gender binary
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People who are assigned male at birth who identify as men as well as people assigned female at birth who identify as women
Cisgender
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People assigned male at birth who don't identify as men as well as people assigned female at birth who don't identify as women
Transgender
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People who identify as both man and woman or neither man nor woman
Nonbinary
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The recognition that our lives are shaped by multiple interacting identities
Intersectionality
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The form of masculinity that constitutes the most widely admired and rewarded kind of person in any given culture
Hegemonic masculinity
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An invisible ride to the top offered to men in female-dominated occupations
Glass escalator
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The sorting of different types of people into separate neighborhoods
Residential segregation
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Residential segregation so extreme that many people's daily lives involve little or no contact with people of other races
Hypersegregation
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A practice of refusing loans to or steeply overcharging anyone buying in poor and minority neighborhoods
Redlining
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Places that lack beneficial or critical amenities
Resource deserts
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The practice of exposing racial and ethnic minorities to more toxins and pollutants than white people
Environmental racism

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