Race and Ethnicity

A social construct based on biological features

Whether it should be defined or not

The process through which understanding of race is used to classify individuals

<p>No, it has occurred within Europe as well</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>A form of social identity related to descent and cultural differences</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>Two individuals may share the same race and be of different ethnicities &amp; vice versa</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>Language, religion, ancestry, styles of dress, adornment</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>Ethnicity has a longer history than race</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>Race is imbedded in institutions and cannot be changed</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>To classify individuals</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>No, they are learned</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>Racial distinction serves to reproduce patterns of power and inequality</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>Language, religion, and ancestry</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>Preconceived ideas about an individual or group</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>When feelings of hostility or anger are directed against objects that are not the real origin of those feelings</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>The idea that ethnic groups should assimilate into the dominant culture</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>A form of coercive labor</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>Blaming an individual or social group for perceived wrongs that arise from socio-economic change</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>Those who believe race should be abandoned as an ideological construct and those who recognize its real-world effects</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>Ethnic groups that are not necessarily in a numerical minority but face discrimination</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>A social construct based on biological features</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>The process through which race is used to classify individuals</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>A form of social identity related to descent and cultural differences</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>Language, religion, ancestry, styles of dress, and adornment</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>The collective failure of organizations to provide services to people because of their color, culture, or ethnic origin</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>Preconceived ideas about an individual or group</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>Fixed and inflexible characterizations of a group of people based on little or no evidence</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>When feelings of hostility or anger are directed against objects that are not the real origin of those feelings</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>Blaming an individual or social group for perceived wrongs that arise from socio-economic change</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>Resource allocation, assimilation, melting pot, cultural pluralism, and multiculturalism</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>It can greatly enrich societies but can also be fragile</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>The acceptance of a minority group by a majority population, in which the former adopts the values and norms of the dominant culture</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>Understanding the ideas or practices of another culture in terms of one’s own</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>The coexistence of numerous cultures within a given society</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>The process whereby groups maintain boundaries separating themselves from others</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>A perspective on ethnic relations which begins from the premise that racism is embedded in legal systems and other social institutions and is the normal, everyday experience of many minority ethnic groups</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>Work, housing, and the criminal justice system</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>How different social and material resources are shared out between and employed by social groups or other elements of society</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>A model of migration based on the idea that ethnic differences can be combined to create new patterns, with flourishing, diverse cultural sources</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>The coexistence of numerous cultures within a given society</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>Understanding the ideas or practices of another culture in terms of one’s own</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>The process whereby groups maintain boundaries separating themselves from others</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>A perspective on ethnic relations which begins from the premise that racism is embedded in legal systems and other social institutions and is the normal, everyday experience of many minority ethnic groups</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>The acceptance of a minority group by a majority population, in which the former adopts the values and norms of the dominant culture</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>The process whereby groups maintain boundaries separating themselves from others</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>Understanding the ideas or practices of another culture in terms of one’s own</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>Adoption by the state of a policy encouraging and facilitating cultural pluralism, which allows all ethnic groups to share equally in economic and political life</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>A perspective on ethnic relations which begins from the premise that racism is embedded in legal systems and other social institutions and is the normal, everyday experience of many minority ethnic groups</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>How different social and material resources are shared out between and employed by social groups or other elements of society</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>A model of migration based on the idea that ethnic differences can be combined to create new patterns, with flourishing, diverse cultural sources</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>The coexistence of numerous cultures within a given society</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>Work, housing, and the criminal justice</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>The process whereby groups maintain boundaries separating themselves from others</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>A perspective on ethnic relations which begins from the premise that racism is embedded in legal systems and other social institutions and is the normal, everyday experience of many minority ethnic groups</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>Understanding the ideas or practices of another culture in terms of one’s own</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>The acceptance of a minority group by a majority population, in which the former adopts the values and norms of the dominant culture.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>Cultural pluralism refers to the coexistence of numerous cultures within a given society, while multiculturalism refers to the assimilation of minority groups into the dominant culture.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>A model of migration based on the idea that ethnic differences can be combined to create new patterns, with flourishing, diverse cultural sources.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>A perspective on ethnic relations which begins from the premise that racism is embedded in legal systems and other social institutions and is the normal, everyday experience of many minority ethnic groups.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>Understanding the ideas or practices of another culture in terms of one’s own.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>The process whereby groups maintain boundaries separating themselves from others.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>Devices that sharpen the divisions between one ethnic group and another.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>Work, housing, and the criminal justice system.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>How different social and material resources are shared out between and employed by social groups or other elements of society.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>Cultural pluralism refers to the coexistence of numerous cultures within a given society, while closure refers to the process whereby groups maintain boundaries separating themselves from others.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>Assimilation refers to the process in which a minority group adopts the values and norms of the dominant culture, while multiculturalism refers to the adoption by the state of a policy encouraging and facilitating cultural pluralism.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>Understanding the ideas or practices of another culture in terms of one’s own.</p> Signup and view all the answers