Sociology Final Exam

The idea that each group in society can keep its unique cultural identity while being part of the whole

• ascribed

• assimilation

• cultutral pluralism

• ethnocentrism

Blending of different cultures into one

• amalgamation

• assimilation

• cultural pluralism

• ethnocentrism

Minority group members take on the characteristics of the dominant group

• amalgamation

• assimilation

• cultural pluralism

• ethnocentrism

The tendency to view ones onwn culture or group as superior

• ascribed

• assimilation

• ethnocentrism

• ideal type

Belief that another cultures is superior to your own

• ascribed

• assimilation

• ethnocentrism

• xenocentrism

To form an image of a group and then apply that image or gelief to everyone in that group

• ideal type

• scapegoat

• stereotype

• stigma

An innocent person that is blamed for something they didn't do

• ethnocentrism

• scapegoat

• stereotype

• stigma

These types of features or traits are things beyond a person's control

• ascribed

• ideal type

• scapegoat

• stigma

Term used to describe people with yellow/brown skin and distinctive folds on their eyelids

• caucasoid

• mongoloid

• negroid

A mark of social disgrace

• ideal type

• scapegoat

• stereotype

• stigma