Examples of Prejudice and Discrimination Poverty Stratification Systems Perspectives Racial and Ethnic Groups
100
What is Subjugation
An example of this would be slavery
100
What is the Poverty Line
This is the minimal annual income needed by a family to survive
100
What is a Class System
This is the distribution of scarce resources and rewards is determined on the basis of achieved status
100
What is Functionalists Perspective on race and ethnicity
This perspective thinks that discrimination aggravates social problems
100
What is Asian Americans
This group is often held up as as the model or ideal minority group
200
What is Scapegoating
This is placing the blame for one's trouble on an innocent individual or group
200
What is poor people
This group of people lives at an increased risk of illness and have a shorter life expectancy
200
What is Exogamy
This is marrying outside your social class, arranged marriage
200
What is Conflict Theorists
They see competition over scarce resources as the cause for social stratification
200
What is African Americans
This group is the 2nd largest minority group in the U.S.
300
What is Ethnic Cleansing
This is the combination of population transfer and extermination
300
What is $11,770
What is the poverty line amount for a 1 person household
300
What is Proletariat
These are the middle to lower middle class citizens
300
What is Kingsley Davis and Wilbert Moore
These 2 functionalists contended that stratification was a necessity for society
300
What is Arab Americans
There are up to 3 million of this group ancestry that reside in the U.S.
400
What is a Genocide
The Holocaust would be an example of this
400
What is Poverty
This is a standard of living that is below the minimum level considered adequate by society
400
What is Estate Systems
These are closed systems based largely on inheritance
400
What is Functionalists Perspective on stratification
This perspectives thinks that certain roles in society must be performed if the system is to be maintained
400
What is Latinos
This is the largest minority group in the U.S.
500
What is Cultural Plurlism
This is when a country allows each group of people within a society to keep its unique cultural identity
500
What is Transfer Payments
This is a government response that redistributes money by tax revenues to groups that need public assistance
500
What is a Caste System
India uses this type of system
500
What is Conflict Perspective on race and ethnicity
This perspective uses the exploration theory and contact hypothesis
500
What is Symbolic Ethnicity
This is the emphasis on on ethnic food or political issues rather than on deeper ties to one's ethnic heritage






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