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