SOCIOL 1Z03 Study Guide - Quiz Guide: Ecological Fallacy, Ascribed Status, Internalized Racism

• School: McMaster University
• Department: Sociology
• Course: SOCIOL 1Z03
• Professor: Lina Samuel

Document Summary

Individuals advantage or disadvantage others because of their group membership: direct institutional discrimination. Institution employs policies or practices that are discriminatory against a person or group in that they deny that person or group a right or freedom. Indirect institutional discrimination: occurs when an action produces uneven results on a group or person because of an unlawful criterion but lacks the intent of being discriminatory. Intentional extermination of all members of a minority group: expulsion or population transfer. Force a minority to leave the country or confine them to a particular location: segregation and separatism. Immigration rates spiked during the 1880s, 1910s, 1950s- have remained high and stable since. 1990s: levels are the result of many forces, displacement, changes in immigration policies, changes in global communication and transportation networks. Define: minority and majority groups, race, racialization, internalized racism. Five categories of intergroup relations: genocide, expulsion, or population transfer, segregation and separatism, assimilation, cultural pluralism or multiculturalism.