Ethnicity Flashcards
status
a position that one occupies in society, regardless of prestige, each person has multiple
ascribed status
a kind of status about which one has little or no choice, age, sex, blood relations
achieved status
a position acquired through actions, effort, talents, accomplishments
mutually excessive statuses
the same person cannot have both the same time, president and vice president, catholic and atheist
contextual statuses
they go together, female, wife, college professor, mother
status shifting
“wearing many hats”, indifferent contexts specific statuses of ours are more important than others
group identities
we have a sense of belonging.connection to out neighborhood, town, state, country, college, etc.
ethnic group
a group of people who share the same culture
ethnicity
feeling of belonging to a certain ethnic group
Ethnicity is not…
…a fixed thing , one may gradually lose their original ethnicity and adopt a new one or choose to change their ethnicity
ethnicity can be…
…supressed
nation-state
an independant country
assimilation
process of change that members of an ethnic group undergo, language, clothing, cuisine, etc.
multiculturalism
ethnic diversity is considered valuable and worth maintaining, different ethnic groups remain distinct
prejudice
devaluing an ethnic group because of its (real or presumed) behavior, values, capabilities, or attributes
