Chapter 11 Race, Ethnicity, Class

Question 1

Naturalization

Answer 1

The social process through with something such as race becomes part of the natural order of things

Question 2

Racialization

Answer 2

Social, economic, and political process of transforming populations into races in creating racial meanings

Question 3

Ethnicity

Answer 3

Belonging to a group with a particular history and social status

Question 4

Primordialism

Answer 4

Social theory that ethnicity is largely a natural phenomenon, because of biological, linguistic, and geographical ties among members

Question 5

Instrumentalism

Answer 5

Social theory that ethnic groups or not naturally occurring or stable, but highly dynamic groups created to serve the interest of one powerful group or another

Question 6

Caste

Answer 6

The system of social stratification found in India that divides people into categories according to moral purity and pollution

Question 7

Social stratification

Answer 7

The classification of people into unequal groupings

Question 8

Prejudice

Answer 8

Preformed usually unfavorable opinions that people hold about people from groups who are different from their own

Question 9

Race

Answer 9

Concept that organizes people into groups based on specific physical traits that are thought to reflect fundamental and innate differences