1. Chapter 10 - Race/Ethnicity
Race - people who share inherited physical characteristics and who are perceived as being part of a group
Mongloids
Negroids
Caucoids

3. Ethnicity - cultural characteristics that distinguish
Ethnicity - cultural characteristics that distinguish one group from another
ex. German, Irish, Swedish

4. Physical/cultural characteristics unequal treatment
Minority Group - share physical or cultural characteristics that result in inequality
Physical/cultural characteristics
unequal treatment
ascribed status (born into)
strong bond and group loyalty
endogamy - marry within the group
***Numbers are not the reason!!!

5. Discrimination - denial of equal treatment based on group membership
Legal discrimination - upheld by law
ex. apartheid
ex. prior to civil rights movement
Institutionalized discrimination - outgrowth of the structure of society
ex. denied access to employment, housing, busing
Prejudice - unsupported generalization where an individual develops an attitude about a group
ex. I don't like blondes because they're dumb

6. Racism - belief one's race is superior to others
Robert K. Merton
1. active bigot - prejudice and openly discriminates
2. timid bigot - prejudice but afraid to discriminate because of society
3. fair-weather liberal - not prejudice but discriminates because of society
4. all-weather liberal - not prejudice and won't discriminate
Self-fulfilling prophecy - prediction that results in behavior that makes the prediction come true

7. ex. blondes, women drivers
Sources of discrimination and prejudice
Stereotypes - oversimplified, exaggerated, or unfavorable generalization about a group of people
ex. blondes, women drivers
**if overcome stereotype, seen as an exception rather than proof stereotype is wrong
Scapegoating - placing blame for own problems on innocent group/individual
ex. blame teacher, school shootings

9. James Byrd Jr.
June 7, 1998, Byrd, 49, father of three, was driven into an East Texas forest, beaten, then chained at the ankles and dragged for three miles, until his head was torn off by the jagged edge of a roadside concrete culvert.
John William King and two other men are accused of chaining James Byrd Jr to the back of a pickup truck and dragging him almost three miles. Prosecutors said Byrd was alive and conscious until the bumpy logging road tore his body apart.

10. Matthew Shepard
Laramie, Wyo., 21-year-old gay college student Matthew Shepard was brutally beaten, tied to a fence and left for dead. He was found 18 hours later and rushed to the hospital, where he lingered on the edge of death for nearly five days before succumbing to his injuries

11. difference between degrees of power *competition for scarce resources
Social environment
difference between degrees of power
*competition for scarce resources

12. cultural pluralism - each group within society keeps unique identity
Patterns of treatment
assimilation - blending of culturally distinct group into a single group with common culture
cultural pluralism - each group within society keeps unique identity
Legal protection
ex. affirmative action, civil rights movement, hate crimes
Population transfer
ex. reservations, Bosnia

14. Subjugation - maintaining control over a group through force
Patterns continued
Subjugation - maintaining control over a group through force
slavery, prisons, women
Segregation - physical separation of a minority group from dominant group
De jure segregation - based on law
ex. Jim Crow "separate but equal"
De facto segregation - informal separation
ex. neighborhoods - steering

17. Genocide - intentional destruction of the entire targeted population
Patterns continued
Genocide - intentional destruction of the entire targeted population
ex. Hitler, Bosnia, Rwanda

18. Armenia
Sudan

19. Srebrenica

20. Rwanda