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27 Cards in this Set
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chemical in your skin that helps protect you from the skin |
melanin |
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helps body to absorb calcium; sunlight helps the body to produce vitamin D |
what does vitamin d have to do with your skin? |
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cultural & ideological perception & evaluation of self & others according to racial identities |
Racism |
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a cultural category; taught & reinforced through our culture |
Race |
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Genotype and Phenotypes; inconsistences b/w phenotypes and race |
Science of Race |
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exists when a group of ppl claim a certain ethnic identity for themselves & are defined that way in others |
Ethnicity |
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attitude about another person or group; usually negative |
Prejudice |
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policy and the ability to enforce that policy in a way that harms others |
Discrimination |
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they can define themselves in anyway they choose; some common characteristics can be language, location, religion, and shared history |
Ethnic groups most common characteristics to define themselves |
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comes from other people who put a certain act or belief on a certain group, person, or thing |
Stereotypes |
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when a majority consumes a minority culture |
Assimilation |
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the acceptance of diversity |
Multiculturalism |
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Hutu vs. Tutsi Tutsi was superior to Hutu Tutsi-rich person in cattle Hutu-ordinary person |
Rwanda being a good example of issues of ethnicity |
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representation of the collection behavior of its members; behavior as patterned and continued |
Society |
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inside/outside and refined/vulgar; having a state of spiritual or emotional claim. You were either refined or vulgar |
Javanese understanding of personhood |
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acting in a way that opposes that group to which you belong; innovator or criminal(depending on what society thinks over time)basis of cultural change; value of mental illness |
Deviance |
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practical process of seperating groups; orientalism; the idea of the "Orient" or the "East"; creation of the "West" (competiton; us vs. them) |
Other & its Purpose |
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identity as social construct; genetics as natural, inborn and unalterable; WHO WE ARE VS. WHO WE THINK WE ARE; Genealogy' Identity as claim to rights and resources |
How genetics complicate our ideas of identity |
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sex-biological distinction; based on genetics gender-cultural distinction; made up of local understanding of difference of sex |
Differences b/w sex and gender |
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links b/w substances and stratification Males-mobile;hunters;warriors Females-childbearing; food production (Females 70%' Males 30%) |
Gender relations Foragers have in general |
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it was a matillertal society; men were often absent for warfare while women were around to hunt and produce food; senior citizens were decision makers, and women really had the final say over the men |
Gender relations we could see among the historical Iroquois |
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patrilineal-everything goes through the male line patrilocal-move in with their husband at marriage men and women had seperate houses. man will have secret hiding places from the women because all they did was fight and didn't want to endanger their community |
patrilineal-patrilocal complex |
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Foragers/horiculturists in Papa New Guinea; extreme avoidance rules; semen gave life force to the fetus which is placed in the woman by ancestor spirits; semen is limited; heterosexual sex is discouraged because it takes away men's virility. |
The Etoros |
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your physical appearance |
Cultural construction of the body |
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what you do to your body |
Cultural performance of the body |
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in the mist at becoming a male, but growing up feeling like a female |
Sara Siwe |
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in the mist of becoming a female, but growing up feeling like a male |
Sara Mone |
