Finals Flashcards
Status
A persons position, or standing in society
Achieved status
Class
Ascribed status
Race, ethnicity, gender, and caste
Race
Organizes people into groups based on physical traits
Naturalization
Social processes through which something, such as race, becomes the natural order of things
Racialization
The social, economic and political processes of transforming populations into races and creating racial meaning
Race
Recent form of social inequality
Unequal meeting of two formerly separate groups through colonization, slavery, and other large group movements
Not a biological reality : culturally constructed
Diaspora population
A dispersed group living outside their original homeland
Caste system maintained though
Marriages
Rituals
How are males and females different
Sex and gender
Sex
The reproductive form and function of the body
Gender
The cultural expectations of how males and females should behave
Gender pluralism
The existence within a culture of multiple categories of feminity , masculinity , and androgyny that are tolerated and legitimate
Third genders
Some cultures permit the expression of varied forms of sexual orientation, for example the berdache
What is kinship
Sense of being related to a person
Kinship system
The social system that organizes people in families based on descent and marriage
Clan
A group of relatives who claim to 6e descended from a single ancestor
Descent
Kinship created through birth into a particular group
Why do people get married
Love
Sex
Children
Family versus household
Family - a group of people who consider themselves related by kinship
Household - a person or persons who live together and may or may not be related by kinship
Nuclear household
Found among foragers
Extended household
Related to fixed economic base/property
Kinds of descent
Unilineal and bilineal
Unilineal descent
Basis of kinship in 60 percent of the worlds culture
