Unit 3

Question 1

blood quantum rule

Answer 1

a law limiting legal recognition of American Indians to those who have at least a certain level of indigenous ancestry

Question 2

cisgender

Answer 2

people who are assigned male at birth and identify as men and people who are assigned women at birth and identify as women

Question 3

computational sociology

Answer 3

a research method that uses computers to extract and analyze data

Question 4

conspicuous consumption

Answer 4

the phenomenon of spending elaborately on items and services wit the sole purpose of displaying ones wealth

Question 5

consumption

Answer 5

the use of wages to purchase goods and services

Question 6

content analysis

Answer 6

counting and describing patterns or themes in media

Question 7

controlling images

Answer 7

persuasive negative stereotypes that serve to justify or uphold inequality

Question 8

distinction

Answer 8

active efforts to affirm identity categories and place ourselves and others into their subcategories

Question 9

doing identity

Answer 9

active performance of social identities

Question 10

ethnicity

Answer 10

an ** identity ** based on collective memories of shared history and distinctive culture

Question 11

gender binary

Answer 11

the idea that people come in two and only two types, males who are masculine and females who are feminine

Question 12

gender

Answer 12

the ideas, traits, interests, and skills that we associate with being male or female

Question 13

in-group bias

Answer 13

preferential treatment of members of our own group and mistreatment of others

Question 14

intersectionality

Answer 14

the recognition that our lives are shaped by multiple interacting identities

Question 15

intersex

Answer 15

those with physical characteristics typical of both people assigned male and female at birth

Question 16

minimal group paradigm

Answer 16

the tendency of people to form groups and actively distinguish themselves from others for the most trivial of reasons

Question 17

nonbinary

Answer 17

identify as both a man and a woman

Question 18

one-drop rule

Answer 18

the idea that anyone with any trace of Black ancestry should be considered black

Question 19

positive distinction

Answer 19

the claim that members of our own group are superior to members of other groups

Question 20

prejudice

Answer 20

attitudinal bias against individuals based on their membership in a social group

Question 21

psychological wage

Answer 21

a noneconomic good given to one group as a measure of superiority over other groups

Question 22

race

Answer 22

socially meaningful set of artificial distinctions falsely based on superficial and imagined biological differences

Question 23

sex

Answer 23

physical traits related to sexual reproduction

Question 24

sexual minorities

Answer 24

people who are gay, lesbian bisexual or otherwise non-heterosexual

Question 25

social identities

Answer 25

the socially constructed categories and subcategories of people in which we place ourselves or are placed by others

Question 26

social identity theory

Answer 26

people are inclined to form social groups, incorporate group membership into their identity, take steps to enforce boundaries, and maximize positive distinction and in-group success

Question 27

status

Answer 27

high or low esteem

Question 28

sterotype

Answer 28

clusters of ideas attached by social convention to people with specific social identities

Question 29

transgender

Answer 29

people who are assigned male at birth but don’t identify as a male