Name_______________________________ Sociology: Patterns of Intergroup Relations (Ch 10.2)
Discrimination and Prejudice
 Words are commonly used ____________interchangeably.
 Discrimination-______________________________________________________________________
 INVOLVES ________________
 Prejudice-_________________________________________________________________________
 Refers to __________________
Discrimination
 Found ______________________________________________________
 Range from __________________________________________________________
 Most ________________ form can lead to ______________ harm or even ________________.
Legal discrimination-______________________________________
 Apartheid system in South Africa-system of elaborate laws that ________________________
_____________________________________.
 Voting __________ women in US
 Jim Crow ________ in the US
 Plessy v. ________________
 __________ v. Board of _______________ of Topeka
Institutionalized discrimination-______________________________________________.
 More resistant to ____________
 Over time, _____________ access to ____________ pushes some __________ groups into
less ____________ positions.
 Dominant __________ consciously _______________ in order to maintain a system of
_______________.
 Can occur even after _________ steps have been taken to ______ discrimination
Examples1. Minority group denied_________________________________.
2. Over time group members become ___________________________________.
3. Community schools are poorly funded; _________________________________________________.
4. Without being able to qualify for higher paying jobs, their children will have _____________________
________________________________________________________.
Prejudice
 Often includes _________________ Stereotypes-oversimplified, _________________, or unfavorable _________________about a
__________ of _________.
 EX-All _________ are hot tempered.
 If people are _______ often and long enough that other people are __________, mentally or
__________ inferior, they come to _____________ it.
 Self-fulfilling prophecy (Merton) a prediction that __________ in behavior that ___________ the
prediction come __________.
 If members of a ____________ group are considered ________________ of understanding
______________ information, they will _______ be _______ technical _______________.
Racism
 Prejudice often serves as _________________________________________.
 Individuals come to believe __________________________________________________________.
 Racism-the belief that one’s __________ or ethnic group is naturally _____________to __________
races or ____________ groups.
Prejudice and Discrimination: Are they always related?
 Active bigot-______________________________________________________________________
 Timid bigot-_______________________________________________________________________
 Fair-weather liberal-________________________________________________________________
 All-weather liberal-_________________________________________________________________
Sources of Discrimination and Prejudice
Sociological Explanations
 Focus on the ___________________________
 Socialization-process by which __________are _________________ (learned)
 _________________ are _____________ in social norms (norms describe ways in which members
are “________________” to ______________ towards certain out-groups)
 People become _____________ to maintain _____________ membership-through identification with a
reference group who _____________ the behavior.
Psychological Explanations
 Focus the behavior of ___________________
 People are ___________ because of _________________
 Adorno found that prejudice people shared _____________________________trait
 Authoritarian=strong ______________, respect for ____________, likely to __________ orders
 Prejudice is also a product of ___________________ and anger
 _____________ locus of ____________
 Scapegoating-placing the blame for one’s trouble on an innocent individual (or minority group)
Economic Explanations
 Discrimination and prejudice arise out of_______________________________________.
 EX-______________ in the 1800 were welcomed for ____________ labor, but were later
viewed as _________________ to whites for jobs
 Laws ______________ immigration of Chinese (____________ Act)
Chapter 10.2 Race and Ethnic Relations (continued)
 Conflict perspective-the ________________ group, in order to ____________their____________, puts
______________ against one another in ________________for_____________, which causes
minority groups to________, distrust and __________ one ____________.
Patterns of Minority Group Treatment
Cultural Pluralism
 Allows each______________________________________.
 Practiced in ___________________
 ___________official ____________: French, German and Italian (3 major __________ groups)
 _________ of the groups has taken a ____________ role in Swiss ____________.
Assimilation
 The _____________ of culturally distinct ____________ into a single group with a common
____________ and _____________.
 Racial and ethnic minorities____________________________________________.
 Assimilation occurs naturally___________________________________________.
 ____________ assimilation often leads to _____________.
 Bulgaria 1980s tried to ________________ large ___________ population.
Legal Protection
 Countries take legal steps (make laws) to ensure________________________________________.
 _________Rights Act 1964 and ___________Rights Act 1965 in the US.
 Affirmative action programs in the US-designed ___________________________________
______________________________________________________.
Segregation
 Policies that physically separate the________________________________________.
 De jure segregation-________ that ___________.
 De facto segregation-_____________ based on informal ___________.
 Jews in Europe during the Middle Ages were forced __________________________________.
 Practiced in the __ __until the _______s
Subjugation
 Maintaining of control__________________________.
 Slavery-the ______________ of one ____________ by another (most ____________ form)
 EX=South Africa’s ________________system:
 Apartheid literally means “_______________”
 Called for _________________ of _____ groups in ______________.
 Political and economic __________rested solely in the hands of the ____________few
and rigidly ________________ by __________.
Population transfer
 Dominant group separates itself from the minority group by transferring _____________________
_______________________________________.
 Indirect transfer-the dominant group_______________________________________________.
 Direct transfer-involves the ___________________________.
 Resettlement of ______________ ______________on reservations during the 1800s
Extermination
 Genocide-the intentional ________________of an entire targeted ________________
 ____________ (and sometimes achieved) many ___________throughout ___________
 Jews in ___________ in the 1800s
 Jews in __________ during WW II-the ______________.
 British _____________ of ______________ in South _____________.
 1.5 ______________ by Turks and the mutual ______________ of Muslims and __________in
the first half of the _______s
 ______________ also in ____________ and Cambodia
Extermination – Ethnic Cleansing
 Combined population ____________ and________________.
 Involves ________________group from a _______________ area through____________, expulsion,
and mass ______________.
 1998 the ____________ government began a campaign that sought to _______ out or
_________ about 1.7 million ethnic ____________.
 In one year 1.5 ________ had been _____________ from their ___________ and 10,000
___________.
 NATO ___________ the Serbs of ___________ their ________ using ____________
intervention.