SOC100: Sociological Perspectives - Race, Ethnicity, and Immigration

A set of vocabulary flashcards based on the themes of race, ethnicity, immigration, and associated sociological concepts.

Ethnicity

Cultural characteristics such as language, religion, taste in food, shared descent, cultural traditions, and shared geographic locations.

Race

A socially constructed phenomenon referring to categories based on shared physical characteristics, considered arbitrarily biologically.

Racialization

The process by which groups come to be designated as a 'race' and subjected to unequal treatment.

Scientific Racism

Attempts to use scientific authority to justify racial inequality, debunked by the completion of the Human Genome Project.

Haplogroups

Groups of alleles that are associated with geographical origins, indicating genetic ancestry rather than race.

Visible Minority

Canadian government term designating individuals who are non-Indigenous, non-Caucasian in race or non-white in color.

BIPOC

An umbrella term that refers to Black, Indigenous, and People of Colour, encompassing differently racialized groups.

Structural Precarity

Precarious work situations that are systemically enforced through government-designated employment systems.

Assimilation

When a minority group is absorbed into the culture of the dominant group, which can be voluntary or coercive.

Genocide

The physical and/or cultural destruction of human groups, as defined by Raphael Lemkin.

Institutional Racism

Discrimination that is embedded in policies and practices within organizations, often leading to systemic inequality.

Intersectional Capitalism

The systemic process that demoralizes and dehumanizes racialized and gendered bodies to exploit labor.