4.04 Identifying Race and Ethnicity
- Racial Group
- A group of people with perceived unique biological and physical characteristics.
- Ethnic Group
- A group set apart from others primarily because of its national origin or cultural patterns.
- Stereotypes
- Broad generalizations about people who are assumed to have traits common to every single member of that category.
- Ideological Racism
- An ideology that considers a group’s physical characteristics to be causally related to inferiority or superiority.
- Thomas Theorem
- States that if people perceive something as being real then it become real in its consequences.
