Race & Ethnicity

Question 1

situational negotiation of social identity

Answer 1

When our claimed or perceived identity varies depending on the context.

Question 2

ethnic group

Answer 2

One among several culturally distinct groups in a society or region

Question 3

ethnicity

Answer 3

identification with and feeling part of an ethnic group

Question 4

status

Answer 4

Any position that determines where someone fits in society

Question 5

ascribed status

Answer 5

social status based on choices or accomplishments

Question 6

achieved status

Answer 6

social status based on choices or accomplishments

Question 7

minority groups

Answer 7

have inferior power and less secure access to resources than majority groups

Question 8

majority groups

Answer 8

the dominant, controlling group who has superordinate access to resources

Question 9

race

Answer 9

when an ethnic group shares an assumed biological basis (shared blood/genes). race is actually socially constructed and are cultural/social rather than biological categories.

Question 10

racism

Answer 10

discrimination against an ethnic group assumed to have a biological basis

Question 11

descent

Answer 11

social identity based on ancestry

Question 12

hypodescent

Answer 12

children assigned to the same group as their minority parent

Question 13

racial classification

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political issue involving access to resources, jobs, voting districts and programs aimed at minorities

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intrinsic racism

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the belief that a perceived racial difference is a sufficient reason to value one person less than another

Question 15

stratified

Answer 15

class-structured, with differences in wealth, prestige and power

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phenotype

Answer 16

expressed physical characteristics of an organism/what you appear as.

Question 17

genotype

Answer 17

hereditary makeup of an organism. what you are genetically.

Question 18

nation

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society sharing a language, religion, history, territory, ancestry and kinship. once was synonymous with tribe or ethnic group.

Question 19

state

Answer 19

stratified society with formal, central government

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nation-state

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an autonomous political entity; a country

Question 21

nationalities

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ethnic groups that have, once had, or want their own country

Question 22

assimilation

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absorption of minorities within a dominant culture

Question 23

colonialism

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long-term foreign domination of a territory and its people

Question 24

plural society

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society with economically interdependent ethnic groups

Question 25

negritude

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“black identity” developed by African intellectuals in French speaking west africa

Question 26

multiculturalism

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view of cultural diversity as valuable and worth maintaining

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prejudice

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devaluing a group because of its assumed attributes

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stereotypes

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fixed ideas - often unfavourable - about what members of a group are like

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discrimination

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policies and practices that harm a group and its members

Question 30

de facto discrimination

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practiced, but not legally sanctioned

Question 31

de jure discrimination

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part of the law ie apartheid

Question 32

refugees

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people who flee a country to escape persecution or war

Question 33

genocide

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deliberate elimination of a group through mass murder

Question 34

ethnocide

Answer 34

destruction of cultures of certain ethnic groups

Question 35

cultural colonialism

Answer 35

internal domination by one group and its culture or ideology over others