Racism as superiority - Study guides, Class notes & Summaries

Anthropology - ANSWERthe study of humans around the world and through time The "Other" - ANSWERa person defined as different Scientific Racism - ANSWERattempts to use scientific methods and theories to support beliefs in the inferiority or the superiority of what are held to be the biological races of the human species craniology - ANSWERstudy of the skull (Samuel Morton) The Noble Savage - ANSWERsmall scale or early human societies, more humane than the "modern" Europe Evolut...

globalization - ANSWER increasing unification of world's economic order through reduction of barriers to trade with goal to increase material wealth, goods, and services through international division of labor. transnational circulation of ideas, languages, or popular culture through acculturation. relativism - ANSWER all points of view are equally valid and all truth is relative to the individual. tolerance - ANSWER living side by side with others who have real and deep differences with...

According to Michael Omi and Howard Winant, in what ways has state law "quantified racial identity"? (pp. 11-13) - correct answer In 1982-83, Susie Guillory Phipps unsuccessfully sued the Louisiana Bureau of VitalRecords to change her racial classification from black to white. The descendant of aneighteenth-century white planter and a black slave, Phipps was designated "black" in herbirth certificate in accordance with a 1970 state law which declared anyo...

race - correct answer -a socially defined category based on real or perceived biological differences between groups of people -ex. white, black, asian -no such thing as superior race -social construction: 2,000 identify more than one race and have changing categories throughout time ethnicity - correct answer -a socially defined category based on common language, religion, nationality, history, ...

Discuss the elements of the tripartite framework for understanding multiple dimensions of identity. - ANSWER The individual level - basically says that we are all unique in some respects ex. Genetically Group level - we all have group similarities. Ex. race, sexual orientation, culture Universal level - we are all humans, common life experiences, language, birth, death Emic - ANSWER Culturally Specific - lifestyles, cultural values, and worldviews affect the expression and determination o...

WGU C273 Introduction to Sociology Unit 4 NEW VERSION ALREADY PASSED According to Saperstein's 2014 study, what is a strange social byproduct of an individual's time in prison? they are more likely to categorize themselves as Black, and they are more likely to be categorized by others as Black Which characteristic would most likely be used to categorize a person according to the salience principle? skin color How does prejudice differ from discrimination? Prejudice is an attitude; discrimin...

Race -A social construction - Imposing social meanings onto real and/or imagined physiological characteristic (superiority/inferiority) - A way to legitimize the colonial subjugation/subordination of European colonized and continue to deny them access to resources - Racism in engrained in nation building - Seen as static/fixed, inherent and unchangeable - Socially grounded in politics, capitalism, and unequal social relations among different groups of people - Maintained by dominant elit...

Race -A social construction - Imposing social meanings onto real and/or imagined physiological characteristic (superiority/inferiority) - A way to legitimize the colonial subjugation/subordination of European colonized and continue to deny them access to resources - Racism in engrained in nation building - Seen as static/fixed, inherent and unchangeable - Socially grounded in politics, capitalism, and unequal social relations among different groups of people - Maintained by dominant elit...

cultural universality - ANSWER universality focus on disorders and their consequent treatments and minimize cultural factors cultural relativism - ANSWER focus on the culture and on how the disorder is manifested and treated within it Tripartite framework for understanding multiple dimensions of identity - ANSWER race, culture, and other group dimensions may influence identity, values, beliefs, behaviors, and the perception of reality Individual level - ANSWER all individuals are, in so...

Race -A social construction - Imposing social meanings onto real and/or imagined physiological characteristic (superiority/inferiority) - A way to legitimize the colonial subjugation/subordination of European colonized and continue to deny them access to resources - Racism in engrained in nation building - Seen as static/fixed, inherent and unchangeable - Socially grounded in politics, capitalism, and unequal social relations among different groups of people - Maintained by dominant elit...