Soc - Unit 5 exam review

The belief that race is the primary determinant of human traits and capacities, and that one's own race is superior over another race.

• Ethnic Cleansing

• Racism

• Racist

• Genocide

Segregation means _____________________.

• Inequality

• Minority Status

• Separation

• Proclamation

Race is based on _____________ characteristics, while Ethnicity is based on ____________ characteristics

• cultural, physical
• physical, cultural
• achieved, ascribed
• citizenship, cultural

A group of people with physical or cultural traits different from those of the dominant group in a society.

• Race

• Ethnicity

• Gender

• Minority

A group of people identified by cultural, religious, or regional characteristics is:

• Race

• Ethnicity

• Gender

• Minority

Widely held negative attitudes towards a group and its individual members is:

• prejudice
• racism
• discrimination
• stereotype

The action of treating people differently based on ethnicity, race, religion, or culture is:

• prejudice
• racism
• discrimination
• stereotype

Racism that is built into the structures of society regardless of the feelings of individuals who are part of the structures is ____________

• biased

• discrimination

• institutional racism

• acculturation

individuals who share a common cultural background and a common sense of identity.

• minority group

• Ethnic group

• race

• ethnicity

Race is described as a social construct, meaning that it _________.

• forms the basis for actions like affirmative action

• is used to scientifically measure social differences based on color

• has no objective reality but rather is what people decide it is

• refers to quantifiable characteristics of a social phenomenon