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| What are three ways to classify societies? |
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Egalitarian
Ranked Societies
Highly stratified societies |
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Bands (San), Tribes (Maasai)
Equal access to wealth, power, prestige |
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Chiefdoms
Equal access to wealth, power but NOT prestige!
Prestige depends on ranking of kinship to chief |
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| Highly stratified societies |
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State (nation- states)
Unequal access to wealth, power, prestige
class (open)
caste (closed) |
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intensive commercialized food production
towns/cities/urbanized & rural
Largest population density |
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| What are some examples of formal institutionalized leadership? |
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centralized complex governments
military/police
laws, taxes, border control, census
formal markets, commercial exchange, foreign trade
US, India, Mexico, etc |
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biologically, humans are all members of one species
Homo sapiens sapiens |
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The concept of "human races" is NOT _______.
It is a ________ ___________. |
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overgeneralizations
stereotypes
Xenophobia
Ethnocentrism
=RACISM! |
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| applying one or two experiences to all members of a group |
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assumed social characteristics
(race or "them") |
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fear of strangers
("them") |
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| "us" is better than "them" |
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| the belief that some races are inferior |
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regarded as "true"
passed from generation to generation
jokes, biases
Fanaticism=belief system |
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| Discrimination: an action |
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legal or illegal
ethnocide= destruction of a culture
genocide= destruction of "them"
terrorism= action taken |
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a group with a shared identity
self-determination by insiders |
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| What is ethnicity based on? |
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history
geography
language
religion
kinship |
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| You cannot ____ someone's ethnicity by _______ |
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| Ethnicity is an ______ term |
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-multiple expressions
-of personal & group identity
-in context of a national identity |
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