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| Race is a social construct because it changes so much over time. The categories of race blend together and change depending on the country. |
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Anyone who has even a little bit of a certain type of blood in them is of that race. EX: Small amount of black blood means that you are black.
Affiliation with the subordinate group to avoid ambiguity. |
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| The process in which race operates as a central axis of social relations, which then determine social, economic and political institutions and practices. |
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| Over time, societie's most powerful institutions establish what race is and who is to be classified with in what racial category. |
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| A group of people who are generally recognized my themselves and others as distinct based on national origin and/or cultural patterns (lang., religion, dress, food). |
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| Black, White, Asian, Indian, Native American, ect. |
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| Any group that is dominant in society, that is, any group that enjoys more than its proportionate share of wealth, power or social status. |
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| Any Group that is assigned an inferior status in society, that is, any group that has less than its proportionate share of wealth, power, or social status. |
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| Dominant Group Characteristics |
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-Power in the social structure.
-Define what is and is not valued.
-Maintain dominant ideology.
-Replicate the existing power structure.
-High ascribed status. |
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| Subordinate Group Characteristics |
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-Low ascribed status.
-Distinct physical or cultural characteristics.
-Unequal treatment.
-Sense of group solidarity.
-Endogamy: In-Group Marriage. |
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| Ascribed vs. Achieved Status |
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Ascribed Status: Born with or given to you invoulentarily.
-Achieved Status: Something achieved. |
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| A person who comes into a new country, region, or environment, especially to settle there. |
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| First Great Immigration Stream |
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Early 1800's-1910's.
-Irish Catholics.
-Germans, Scandinavians, other Northern Europeans.
-Chinese.
-Italians.
-Eastern European Jews.
-Japanese. |
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| Second Great Immigration Stream |
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1960's- Present
-Latin Americans.
-Asians.
-Carribean Natives.
-Africans.
-Middle Easterners. |
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| To enter and settle in a foreign country where one is not native. |
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| To differentiate, categorize, or to impose a racial character or context on, according to face. Also, to perceive or experience in racial terms. |
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| Japanese government denied passports to their people. In return the U.S. would rescind the segrigation of Japanese children. |
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First time in U.S. history that one specific race was denied entry to the country.
-Meant to be passed for only ten years, but lasted until 1943 until the Magnuson act was passed. |
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Allowed limited immigration and limited naturalized citizanship.
-Couldn't own private property or a business until 1965. |
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U.S. became closed off to the rest of the world after WWI.
-1951: Stop Gap Measure passed to slow the flow of immigrants.
-1924: 2% immigration allowed only. Used the 1890 census to determine this. Few immigrants allowed.
-1927: 2% rule lifted to allow 150,000 immigrants annually.
-North-Western Europeans allowed, South-Eastern Europeans not really allowed in- Linked to the war. |
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| 1956 Immigration and Naturalization Act |
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-Reunited families.
-Protect labor market.
-Reformed immigration to improve relation with non-White nations.
-Ensured racial and ethnic equality.
-Immigrants granted residency are considered based on their skills and family reunification.
-Children, parent, spouse.
-Gifted Professionals. |
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| Successive waves of immigrants will be merged into the "mainstream" of U.S. social life. |
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| Diverse peoples blend their physical and cultural differences into an altogether new breed of American. |
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| Recognizes/respects persistance of racial and ethnic diversity. Races shall stay the same. |
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| Contemporary Immigration Characteristics/Facts |
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-More immigrants than every before but they are a smaller percentage of the overall population.
-Immigrant groups are highly diverse.
--Geographic settlement.
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-A person who flees from one's home or country to seek refuge elsewhere as in a time of war or political or religious persecution.
-In the U.S. refugees are granted the right to enter the country while still residing abroad. |
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| A person who leaves their home or country because of war, political or religious persecution. Unlike a refugee they have no documentation and have not officially been permitted refugee status in the country. |
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-Vivid awareness of the relationship between the individual experience and wider society.
-Enables us to grasp the relations between history and biography.
-To pull away from the situation and think from an alternative point of view.
-Suspend judgement. |
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Individual: You and your immediate world, life, and surroundings.
Local: Close but not national. EX: Fort Collins. A society you participate in.
National:The United States.
Global: The World. |
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| A continuing process whereby an individual acquires a personal identity and learns the norms, values, behavior and skills appropriate to his or her social position. |
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-A social mechanism, phenomenon, or category created and developed by society.
-A perception of an individual, group, or idea that is "constructed" through cultural or social practice. |
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| Unreliable generalizations about members of a group that do not take individual differences into account. |
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| A negative attitude toward an entire category of people. |
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| Behavior that excludes individuals or entire groups from certain rights, opportunities, or privilages. |
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| Interracial Contact (2006 Survey) |
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-80% of respondents said top three friends where of the same race.
-78% of Co-workers were of same race.
-75% of neighbors were of same race.
-50% reported no daily intereactions w/ members of a different race. |
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| The tendency of majorities to negatively label minorities or those seen as deviant from standard cultural norms. |
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-Natural superiority.
-Fundamental Difference.
-Sense of proprietary claim.
-Fear and threat. |
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| Acts of discrimination by individuals or groups that harm others and their property. |
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| Institutional Discrimination |
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| Fundamentally, inequality is not a matter of private individual intentions, but rather a matter of public institutions and practices that create or perpetuate racism. |
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| -Not mandated but it held as a fact of the society. |
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-A right, advantage, or immunity granted to or enjoyed by white persons beyond the common advantage of all others.
-An exemption in many particular cases from certain burdens or liabilities. |
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-Oppression is systematic devalusing, undermining and marginalizing of certain social identities in contrast to the privilaged norm.
-Privilege is systematic favoring, valusing, validating and including of a certain "normative" social identity over others. |
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-Functionalist.
-Mass media reflects dominant and mainstream norms and values of the population. |
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-Symbolic Interactionist.
-The values and images of the people in the media represent societie's most traditional views.
-Media images impede racial and ethnic equality. |
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-Conflict.
-Media racism primarily derives from the capitalist structure of media institutions.
-Elite interests maintain dominant (white) privilege by keeping the masses divided. |
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-Conflict.
-Racist images in the media derive from structural inequalities within media institutions.
-As subordinate group members take positions of power they become co-opted into the system and maintain the status quo.
-Burocracies, anarchists, revolution. |
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