Midterm!

Question 1

Race (5)

Answer 1

perceived physical differences, assigned, reflects power relations, difference in worth, constructed by others

Question 2

Ethnicity (5)

Answer 2

common descent, assertion or assigned, may reflect power relations, may imply differences in worth, constructed by both selves and others

Question 3

Primordial Rationale for group formation

Answer 3

Blood, cultural connections rooted in circumstances of birth

Question 4

Primordial orientation of R/E IDs

Answer 4

Toward local community interests often not material but ideal

Question 5

Primordial Key explanatory variables or terms

Answer 5

Nature, bio, culture, socialization

Question 6

Primordial Nature of Group Ties

Answer 6

Given deeply rooted not a matter of choice, but of inheritance

Question 7

Primordial relationship to history

Answer 7

rooted in history and tradition, stable

Question 8

Primordial relationship to circumstance

Answer 8

largely unaffected by circumstance

Question 9

Primordial relationship b/w R/E and class

Answer 9

prior to and preemptive of class interests

Question 10

Primordial Role as a social scientific variable

Answer 10

independent

Question 11

Circumstantial Rationale for group formation

Answer 11

Either utility, or organizational experience

Question 12

Circumstantial orientation of R/E IDs

Answer 12

Toward political, econ and status interests

Question 13

Circumstantial Key explanatory variables or terms

Answer 13

circumstances, history, structured inequality

Question 14

Circumstantial Nature of Group Ties

Answer 14

Instrumental, expedient, convenient- a matter of circumstance and choice

Question 15

Circumstantial relationship to history

Answer 15

Product of history, changing, variable

Question 16

Circumstantial to circumstance

Answer 16

Product of circumstance

Question 17

Circumstantial relationship b/w R/E and class

Answer 17

Often serves class interests

Question 18

Circumstantial Role as a social scientific variable

Answer 18

Dependent

Question 19

Thin

Answer 19

Not significant, not crucial to defining yourself

Question 20

Thick

Answer 20

Live w/ co-ethnics, drives a major part of their life

Question 21

Assigned

Answer 21

Decide for you

Question 22

Asserted

Answer 22

Group decision design

Question 23

Expressive

Answer 23

ID for symbolic and personal meaning pride/ID feeling

Question 24

Instrumental

Answer 24

Designed to accomplish something making a claim

Question 25

Structured social inequality

Answer 25

As a group, it is very hard to break out. Stops ability to think about these. Education is minimal

Question 26

Institutional discrimination

Answer 26

Denial of rights and opportunities that results from the normal operations of a society

Question 27

Transformative assets

Answer 27

ways people can use leverage for other things

Question 28

Race Relations cycle

Answer 28

Contact w/ dom group, competition, accommodation, assimilation

Question 29

Social closure

Answer 29

Use of some characteristic of group to exclude members from scarce resources to protect access of others

Question 30

Social reproduction

Answer 30

How schools channel people into the jobs consistent to their background

Question 31

Dejure

Answer 31

By law

Question 32

Defacto

Answer 32

by practice

Question 33

Prejudice

Answer 33

Prejudice is a negative or hostile attitude toward a group or person from that group. It is based on faulty generalization.

Question 34

Discrimination

Answer 34

is an action, behavior, treatment or outcome. Discrimination can result from prejudice, but it does not always, Discrimination can be the result of social processes and institutional arrangements as well as the actions of an individual

Question 35

Social Constructionism

Answer 35

Borrows heavily from Circumstantialism – external factors are very important – but adds the agency of actors (individuals and groups).