Chapter 8: Race and Ethnicity

Question 1

Race

Answer 1

A social category based o real or perceived biological differences between people.

Question 2

Ethnicity

Answer 2

A social category that’s applied to a group with shared ancestry or heritage.
Ex. Amish, Jews

Question 3

Symbolic Ethnicity

Answer 3

An ethnic identity seen only in specific events.

Ex. St. Patricks day for the Irish

Question 4

Situational Ethnicity

Answer 4

An ethnic identity shown deliberately in some situation when the identity is favored or provides a benefit.

Question 5

Minority

Answer 5

A social group denied the same power and resources available to society’s dominant group. Group doesn’t have to be fewer in numbers.

Question 6

Functionalist

Answer 6

Analyze how ethnic groups arrived in 1900s became assimilated into larger society.

Question 7

Conflict Theorists

Answer 7

The struggle for power and control

Question 8

Passing

Answer 8

A person presenting themselves as a different racial or ethnic group than the one they were born into. Done when it’s beneficial then the race they were born into.

Question 9

Double Consciousness

Answer 9

By W.E.B DuBois divided identity experienced by blacks in the U.S–>present themselves as white

Question 10

Embodied Identity

Answer 10

Elements of identity that are made through the other person’s perceptions of physical traits. Is the basis of discrimination.

Question 11

Identity Challenges

Answer 11

Accusations that an individual is not really black. They go out of the boundaries people think are what define you as black.

Question 12

Intersectionality

Answer 12

White woman lose some of their “whiteness” when they marry a black man.

Question 13

Pluralism

Answer 13

Permits racial and ethnic variation and encourages people to embrace it.