Sociology /Critical Race Theory Flashcards
Critical Race Theory (CRT)
A movement by a collection of activists and scholars interested in studying and transforming the relationship among race, racism, and power. They try to understand our social situation and how society organizes itself along racial lines and hierarchies and how to transform it for the better.
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Critical Race Theory (CRT)
A movement by a collection of activists and scholars interested in studying and transforming the relationship among race, racism, and power. They try ...
Micro-aggression
Small act of racism consciously or unconsciously coming from racial matters we absorb from our cultural heritage in the USA.
What are the Six tenets of CRT?
Ordinariness, Interest Convergence, Social Construction of Race, Differential Racialization, Intersectionality, and A Unique Voice of Color.
Ordinariness
Racism is common.
Interest Convergence
When interest of blacks and whites interests converge. But the white people only support because there is something in it for them.
Social Construction Theory
Is a made up phenomenon that is scientifically discredited.
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| Term | Definition |
|---|---|
Critical Race Theory (CRT) | A movement by a collection of activists and scholars interested in studying and transforming the relationship among race, racism, and power. They try to understand our social situation and how society organizes itself along racial lines and hierarchies and how to transform it for the better. |
Micro-aggression | Small act of racism consciously or unconsciously coming from racial matters we absorb from our cultural heritage in the USA. |
What are the Six tenets of CRT? | Ordinariness, Interest Convergence, Social Construction of Race, Differential Racialization, Intersectionality, and A Unique Voice of Color. |
Ordinariness | Racism is common. |
Interest Convergence | When interest of blacks and whites interests converge. But the white people only support because there is something in it for them. |
Social Construction Theory | Is a made up phenomenon that is scientifically discredited. |
Differential Racialization | When the dominant society racializes different minority groups at different times in response to shifting needs such as labor market. |
Intersectionality | People are a combination of different social categories thus no one has a single identity. |
A Unique Voice of Color | Minority writers writing about their experiences with oppression. White counterparts are unlikely to understand. |
Hypo-descent | A mixed child takes on the racial classification of the parent from the racially subordinate group. |
Idealist | Thinks racism and discrimination are matters of thinking, mental categorization, attitude and discourse. And since race is a social construction we can deconstruct it. |
Realist | Think while attitudes and words are important, racism is more than that. It plays a role in our lives. It determines allocation of privilege and status. |
Social Stratification | A pattern in society that ranks and categorizes people into social positions which determines one's access to society's power, wealth, and opportunities. Its based on class, race, gender, and other social characteristics. The result is unequal distribution because of ones social status. |
Hierarchy | Pyramid indicating the pecking order of ranking in society. |
Capitalism | An economic system where natural resources and tools are distributed tare privately owned and operated for a profit. Owners exploit workers to maximize profit this creating a rich and poor. |
Surplus Labor | Workers work for more than what they are paid for. |
Race | Scientifically discredited idea that humans can be divided into a smaller number of biologically separated groups based on physical differences. Social and political construction. Social Construction of race has real economic, social, and political consequences. |
Phenotype | Visible characteristics of an organism. A product of at least three overlapping and inseparable factors of chance, context and choice. |
Ethnicity | Distinctive social and cultural heritage shared by a group of people. |
Ethnic Group | A group of people connected by shared history, language, beliefs, values, institutions, practices, customs and traditions. |
Primordialism | The intuitive bond that focuses on culture and tradition. This bond holds people together by belief, worldview, and practice. |
Instrumentalism | Ethnic group uses their ethnicity as a strategic tool or resource. |
Pan Ethnicity | Deals with structure not culture. It identifies a lot of groups and put into one large group. For example Japanese, Korean, Chinese= Asian. |
Racism | A system of beliefs and behaviors that constructs notion that humans can be divided into small number of bio-genetically distinct groups, creates a hierarchy of superior and inferior, and promotes domination and privilege of superior race. |
White Supremacy | System of meaning that promotes that white people are superior genetically and culturally than non-whites. |
People of Color | Term to refer to non-European members of historically oppressed ethnic groups. |
Genetic Elasticity | Tendency of humans to have a wide range of physical traits which is not limited to one group. |
Social/ Economic Class | Group of people who occupy the same relative economic rank in social stratification system. People in the same class share similar amounts of income, education, and wealth. (Or lack of) |
Wealth | All goods and resources have economic value, the assets of a person. |
Income | The amount of money one regularly receives for work in investments. |