Race & Ethnic Relations Study Guide: Understanding Prejudice, Discrimination & Inequality, Study notes of Conflictology

Download Race & Ethnic Relations Study Guide: Understanding Prejudice, Discrimination & Inequality and more Study notes Conflictology in PDF only on Docsity! CHAPTER 6 – RACE AND ETHNIC RELATIONS Study Guide 1. What is an ascribed status? How does it differ from an achieved status? 2. What is a minority group? Is minority status based on numeric size, one’s position in the stratification system, or both? 3. What are race and ethnicity? How do race and ethnicity differ? 4. What is racism? 5. What are prejudice and discrimination? How do these two concepts related and how do they differ? Explain what is meant by “unprejudiced nondiscriminator”, “unprejudiced discriminator”, “prejudiced nondiscriminator”, and “prejudiced discriminator”. 6. Using the discussion in Chapter 5 (Poverty) how do the three theoretical (functionalist, conflict theorist, and interactionist) explanations of wealth and poverty related to prejudice and discrimination? 7. What is ethnocentrism? What is an in-group? What is a “we feeling”? Explain how this can become dysfunctional and threaten social order? How this can lead to conflict, hostility, and discrimination? 8. How does conflict theory explain the existence of prejudice and discrimination in our society? What is a split-labor market? What is internal colonialism? 9. How does socialization relate to prejudice and discrimination? 10. What is institutionalized discrimination? Give an example and explain it. 11. What is a stereotype? Give an example and explain it. Why do people use stereotypes? 12. What is scapegoating? Give an example and explain it. 13. What is an authoritarian personality? 14. What are the sources of prejudice and discrimination? Are these causes psychological, sociological, or both? 15. According to the text, what are the four major consequences of discrimination? 16. When did African Americans first arrive in the United States? What Supreme Court rulings are related to African Americans? Explain what is meant by “separate but equal”? How has the position of African Americans changed over the past forty years? Are African Americans on equal footing with whites today – why or why not? 17. What ethnic groups are included in the term “Hispanic”? What is the largest group of Hispanics in the United States today (from what country of origin)? What is a barrio and why were they formed? How has the position of Mexican Americans changed since World War II? What is the second largest group of Hispanics? What is meant by “Latinismo”? 18. How has the population of American Indians changed over time? What was the purpose of the Bureau of Indian Affairs (BIA)? How has the position of American Indians changed over time? 19. Asian Americans include immigrants from which countries? What was the purpose of the Chinese Exclusion Act of 1882? How has the position of Chinese Americans changed over time? How were Japanese Americans treated before and after the attack on Pearl Harbor? How has the position of Japanese Americans changed over time? 20. Are there any immigration quotas still in affect today? Why or why not? 21. What percentage of immigrants comes from each of the different continents?