SOC 1000 Unit 6 Vocabulary

race

a socially constructed category of people who share biologically transmitted traits that a society defines as important

ethnicity

a shared cultural heritage

minority

based on numbers, power, and visibility

nativity

where were you born

naturalism (social darwinism)

natural order, survival of the socially fit

biosocial perspective

genetics are key to the understanding of race

social construction of reality

To understand the world around us, humans interact and create meanings; thus, all meanings are subjunctive

US Census

counts every resident in the United States

racial hierarchy

determined by skin color, assimilation, economic need, and critical mass

assimilation

willingness to give group identity for a "common" accepted identity

individual prejudice

overt or covert individual acts that harm others individuals or their properties

subtle prejudice

covert individual acts

blatant prejudice

overt individual acts

institutional racism

structural ideologies and institutions that reward whites and penalize people of color

Jim Crow racism

racism stated in laws

Laissez Faire racism

racist undertones

stereotypes

generalizations of a set of characteristics to all members of a group

prejudice

A belief about an individual or a group that is not subject to change on the basis of evidence

discrimination

The unequal treatment of individuals on the basis of their membership in a group

white flight

the phenomenon of white people moving out of urban areas, particularly those with significant minority populations, and into suburban areas

police brutality

the excessive and unwarranted use of force by law enforcement against an individual or a group

mass incarceration

refers to the reality that the United States criminalizes and incarcerates more of its own people than any other country in the history of the world and inflicts that enormous harm primarily on the most vulnerable among us: poor people of color

Brown vs. Board of Ed

ruled that U.S. state laws establishing racial segregation in public schools are unconstitutional, even if the segregated schools are otherwise equal in quality

school to prison pipeline

a disturbing national trend wherein youth are funneled out of public schools and into the juvenile and criminal legal systems

Juan Crow Immigration Laws

state laws that target undocumented immigrants

WEB DuBois

the first sociologist to articulate the agency of the oppressed

Eduardo Bonilla-Silva

coined the concept racialized social system as an alternative framework