Race & Gender Flashcards
What is the difference between race and ethnicity?
Race = social construct based on physical characteristics.
Ethnicity = shared beliefs, values, language, nationality, practices
What is the difference between stereotypes, prejudice, and discrimination?
stereotypes = oversimplified ideas about a group
prejudice = thoughts or feelings of a group not based on experience
discrimination = actions taken towards that group
What is institutional racism?
When racism is embedded in a social system, influencing its policies and practices; reproduces inequality
What are some patterns of interaction?
Voluntary migration Genocide Segregation Ethnic conclaves Confinement Expulsion Ethnic cleansing superordination
What is pluralism?
Groups enter an area voluntarily but seek to maintain own culture
What are the four benchmarks of assimilation?
Intermarriage
Spatial concentration
Language
Socioeconomic status
How to conflict theorists view race?
Look at split labour markets and how it reproduces inequality
How to symbolic interactionist view race?
Language and symbolism in racism
How to functionalists view race?
Institutional discrimination
How do feminists view race?
Intersectionality. Effects of racism more severe when victim not a man
What are the four measurments in Hofstede’s cultural dimensions theory?
Power distance
Individuation
Masculinity
Uncertain avoidance
What is the human capital model?
assumes men and women bring different skills to workforce
Choice model?
Assumes income gap created by choice
Patriarchy model
male dominated society prevents opportunities
Liberal feminists look at:
Increasing equality in work and education
Expanding human choice in outcomes
Eliminating gender stratification
Ending sexual violence
