Chapter 8

Question 1

Race

Answer 1

human created categories that have come to assume great social importance

Question 2

Racial formation theory

Answer 2

way to understand social importance of race

Question 3

Racial common sense

Answer 3

ideas people share about race that they believe to be so obvious they do not question their validity

Question 4

Ethnic group

Answer 4

consists of people who share, believe they share, or are believed by others to share a national origin, common ancestry, birthplace, or social traits

Question 5

Selective forgetting

Answer 5

process by which people forget or dismiss a connection to one or more ethnicities

Question 6

Hidden ethnicity

Answer 6

sense of self that is based on no awareness of an ethnicity

Question 7

5 characteristics of minority groups

Answer 7

• involuntary membership
• status is not based on size
  -excluded from full participation in larger society
  -socially and spatially isolated
  -treated as members of a category

Question 8

Racism

Answer 8

a set of beliefs that uses biological factors to explain/justify inequalities btw racial and ethnic groups