Race & Ethnicity

Question 1

Ethnicity

Answer 1

: the degree to which a person identifies with and feels an attachment to a particular ethnic group

Question 2

Symbolic ethnicity

Answer 2

Limited or occasional displays of ethnic pride and identity that are primarily expressive—for public display—rather than instrumental as a major component of their daily social lives.

Question 3

Ethnogenesis

Answer 3

the gradual emergence of a new, distinct ethnic identity in response to changing social circumstances

Question 4

Genitic Diversity within a group or between groups

Answer 4

individuals from different populations can be genetically more similar than individuals from the same population

Question 5

Race: biological or social construct

Answer 5

Social Construct

Question 6

biological determinism

Answer 6

The idea that most human characteristics, physical and mental, are determined at conception by hereditary factors passed from parent to offspring

Question 7

Hypodescent:

Answer 7

the one-drop rule; a socially constructed racial classification system in which a person of mixed racial heritage is automatically categorized as a member of the less (or least) privileged group

Question 8

White Privilege

Answer 8

most white people think of themselves in non-racial terms (a privilege of whiteness).
Whites are more likely to receive bank loans, mortgages, and receive preferential treatment in stores and restaurants.

Question 9

Variation in skin tone and clinal distributions

Answer 9

the closer you are to colder regions give lighter sin rather than hotter place produce darker skin