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Ch. 6 - Ethnicity and Race Flashcards

1
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One among several culturally distinct groups in a society or region

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Ethnic group

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2
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Social status based on choices or accomplishments

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Achieved status

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3
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Identification with an ethnic group

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Ethnicity

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4
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Any position that determines where someone fits in society

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Status

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5
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Social status based on limited choice

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Ascribed status

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6
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Assigning humans to categories (purportedly) based on common ancestry

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Racial classification

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7
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An organism’s evident traits, its “manifest biology” - anatomy and physiology

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Phenotype

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8
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“Natural sunscreen” produced by skin cells responsible for pigmentation

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Melanin

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9
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Zone between 23 degrees north (Tropic of Cancer) and 23 degrees south (Tropic of Capricorn) of the Equator

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Tropics

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10
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Vitamin D deficiency marked by bone deformation

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Rickets

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11
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Ethnic group assumed to have a biological basis

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Race

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12
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Discrimination against an ethnic group assumed to have a biological basis

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Racism

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13
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Social identity based on ancestry

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Descent

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14
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Children of mixed unions assigned to the same group as their minority parent

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Hypodescent

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15
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Class structured, with differences in wealth, prestige, and power

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Stratified

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16
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Society that shares a language, religion, history, territory, ancestry, and kinship

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Nation

17
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Stratified society with formal, central government

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State

18
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Autonomous political entity; a country

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Nation-state

19
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Ethnic groups that have, once had, or want their own country

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Nationalities

20
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Long-term foreign domination of a territory and its people

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Colonialism

21
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Absorption of minorities within a dominant culture

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Assimilation

22
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Society with economically interdependent ethnic groups

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Plural society

23
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View of cultural diversity as valuable and worth maintaining

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Multiculturalism

24
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Devaluing a group because of its assumed attributes

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Prejudice

25
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Fixed ideas - often unfavorable - about what members of a group are like

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Stereotypes

26
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Policies and practices that harm a group and its members

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Discrimination

27
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Deliberate elimination of a group through mass murder

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Genocide

28
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Deliberate suppression of destruction of an ethnic culture by a dominant group

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Ethnocide

29
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People who flee a country to escape persecution or war

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Refugees

30
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The internal domination by one group and its culture or ideology over others

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Cultural colonialism

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