SOCI 120 Study Guide - Midterm Guide: Ugandan Shilling, Social Distance, An American Dilemma
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Race/ethnicity: race: a socially constructed category or people who share biologically transmitted traits that members of a society consider important. People define themselves based on ancestors, lang. , & religion. Prejudice/discrimination: prejudice is a rigid & unfair generalization about an entire category of people. Prejudices are prejudgments that can be either positive or negative. Discrimination: unequal treatment of v arious categories of people. Prejudice refers to attitudes; discrimination is a matter of action. Majority/minority interaction: social scientists describe interaction between majority & minority members of society in terms of four models: pluralism: a state in which people of all races & ethnicities are distinct but have equal social standing. Assimilation: the process by which minorities gradually adopt patters of the dominant culture. Segregation: the physical & social separation of categories of people. Genocide: the systematic killing of one category of people by another.
