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Chapter 15 Vocabulary
Ethnicity and Race
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Anthropology
Undergraduate 1
09/30/2013

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Ethnic Group
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one among several culturally distinct groups in a society or religion
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Ethnicity
Definition
identification with an ethnic group
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Status
Definition
any position that determines where someone fits in society
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Ascribed Status
Definition
social status based on little or no choice
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Achieved Status
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social status based on choices or accomplishments
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Race
Definition
ethnic group assumed to have a biological basis
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Racism
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discrimination against an ethnic group assumed to have a biological basis
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Descent
Definition
social identity based on ancestry
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Hypodescent
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children assigned to the same group as their minority parent
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Stratified
Definition
class-structured, with differences in wealth, prestige, and power
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Phenotype
Definition
expressed physical characteristics of an organism
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Nation
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society sharing a language, religion, history, territory, ancestry, and kinship
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State
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stratified society with formal, central government
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Nation-State
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an autonomous political entity; a country
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Assimilation
Definition
absorption of minorities within a dominant culture
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Nationalities
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ethnic groups that have, once had, or want their own country
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Colonialism
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long-term foreign domination of a territory and its people
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Plural Society
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society with economically interdependent ethnic groups
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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 beacuse of its assumed attributes
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Stereotypes
Definition
fixed ideas - othen unfavorable - about what members of a group are like
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Discrimination
Definition
policies and practices that harm a group and its members
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Refugees
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people who flee a country to escape persecution or war
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Genocide
Definition
deliberate elimination of a group through mass murder
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Ethnocide
Definition
destruction of cultures of certain ethnic groups
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Cultural Colonialism
Definition
internal domination by one group and its culture or ideology over others
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