Social stratification - answer the classification of people into unequal groupings
Caste - answer the system of social stratification found in Indian society that divides
people into categories according to moral purity and pollution
Social Strata - answer emerge from the process of differentiation and evaluation in the
form of social statuses, differences, and classes
Class - answer the hierarchical distinctions between social groups in society usually
based on wealth, occupation, and social standing
Egalitarian Societies - answer no social groups having greater access to economic
resources, power, or prestige - usually foragers
Rank Societies - answer do not have unequal access to economic resources or to
power, but they do contain social groups having unequal access to prestige
Ascribed Status - answersocial positions that people hold by virtue of birth - Sex, age,
family relationships, birth into class or caste
Achieved status - answer- social positions attained as a result of individual action • Shift
from homogeneous kin-based societies to heterogeneous society of associations
involves growth in importance of achieved status
Racism - answerThe repressive practices, structures, beliefs, and representations that
uphold racial categories and social inequality. • Race operates as a form of class
Light skin - answer- found in northern latitudes - helps skin produce vitamin D
Dark Skin - answerfound in tropical regions - helps protect against UV radiation
Caucasian - answercoined by Johann Blumenbach • Found a "beautiful" skull in the
Caucasus mountains • Coined the term "Caucasian" because he believed that the
Caucasus region of Asia Minor produced "the most beautiful race of men
Racialization - answerThe social, economic, and political processes of transforming
populations into races and creating racial meanings • Nature outside of culture •
Phenotype & blood quantum
U.S. - answer- Bi-racial society
, Japan - answerA nation whose population is greater than 99% born in Japan - Racism
in Japan is often not directed so much against people of a particular race or ethnic
group but rather against those who are nonJapanese
Brazil - answer- Long history with slavery and as recipient of emigrants from all over the
world - Racial paradise image - Process of whitening - racial and cultural means through
which outsiders become "Brazilian" - While racial divisions in Brazil are not clearly
defined, class lines are
Canada - answer- Vertical mosaic
Stratified Society - answerThere are significant breaks in the distribution of goods,
services, rights, obligations, power, and prestige.
Ethnic groups - answerhose human groups that entertain a subjective belief in their
common descent because of similarities of physical type or of customs or of both-
collectively identify as a distinct group based on shared ancestry, language, customs,
and beliefs
Primordialism - answera social theory that ethnicity is largely a natural phenomenon,
because of biological (i.e., "primordial"), linguistic, and geographical ties among
members.
Instrumentalism - answera social theory that ethnic groups are not naturally occurring or
stable, but highly dynamic groups created to serve the interests of one powerful group
or another.
Ethnogenesis - answerthe emergence of a new ethnic group. Part of an existing group
splits and forms a new ethnic group, members of two or more groups fuse.-Ex:the Métis
of Canada
Prejudice - answerpreformed, usually unfavorable opinions that people hold about
people from groups who are different from their own.
Discrimination - answerthe negative or unfair treatment of an individual because of his
or her membership in a particular social group or category.
Intersectionality - answerThe circumstantial interplay of race, class, gender, sexuality,
and other identity markers in the expression of prejudicial beliefs and discriminatory
actions
Cultural Appropriation - answerthe process by which cultures adopt customs and
knowledge from other cultures and use them for their own benefit
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