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Class: SOC - Racial and Ethnic Relations; Subject: Sociology; University: Saint Cloud State University; Term: Forever 1989;
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a group that is socially set apart because of obvious physical differences TERM 2
DEFINITION 2 a group that is set apart because of it's national origin or distinctive culture patterns. For example: Hispanics/Latinos encompasses all Mexican, Puerto Rican, Cuban, and Latin Americans TERM 3
DEFINITION 3 a subordinate group whose members have significantly less control or power over their own lives than do the members of a dominant or majority group TERM 4
DEFINITION 4 association with a religion other than the dominant faith as a basis for minority group status. In the US Protestants outnumber all other religious groups. TERM 5
DEFINITION 5 members of a minority have five characteristics: unequal treatment distinguishing physical or cultural traits involuntary membership awareness of subordination in-group marriage.
gender also creates dominant and subordinate groups. Males are the social majority females, though numerous, are relegated to the position of the social minority, a subordinate status. Women are considered a minority even though they do not exhibit all of the characteristics of a minority group. Women may encounter prejudice and discrimination and are physically distinguishable. Group membership is involuntary and many women have developed a sense of sisterhood. TERM 7
DEFINITION 7 members associated with homosexuality are viewed as a minority due to the majority of the population being hetrosexual. This is a civil rights group due to the emergence of a large number of the group. TERM 8
DEFINITION 8 racial ethnic religious gender other (lgbt, diabled, vets) TERM 9
DEFINITION 9 extermination (genocide) expulsion secession segregation fusion assimilation pluralism TERM 10
DEFINITION 10 an attempt to eliminate a subordinate group. The term genocide is often used to describe such processes.
the physical separation of racial and ethnic groups reappearing after a period of relative integration TERM 17
DEFINITION 17 Native Americans formed into race by grouping tribes together and through expulsion African Americans "one drop" rule Hispanic Americans grouping all Spanish speakers into one group TERM 18
DEFINITION 18 the mistaken notion of a genetically isolated human group; due to migration, exploration, and invasion, no mutually exclusive race exist TERM 19
DEFINITION 19 the doctrine that one race is superior to another TERM 20
DEFINITION 20 the sociohistorical process in which racial categories are created, inhabited, transformed, and destroyed. Those in power define groups that depend on racist social structure.For example: The Native Americans and the creation of the reservation in the late 1800s formed a new racial identity. The federal policy combined previously distinctive tribes into a single group
the development of solidarity between ethnic subgroups - such as Hispanic or Asian Americans. TERM 22
DEFINITION 22 the status of being between two cultures at the same time, such as a person whose mother is Jewish and father is a Christian. Also known as double consciousness. TERM 23
DEFINITION 23 the native population of the Americas who were the original inhabitants of US and North America TERM 24
DEFINITION 24 the Federal government dealt with the Native Americans through treaties aimed at dispossessing of their lands; the Federal government's relations with Native Americans were handled by the Secretary of War and the War Department TERM 25
DEFINITION 25 Elimination of reservation system, ends medical coverage, tax immunity, schools, and college scholarships.