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29 Cards in this Set
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Adaptive strategy |
A societies system of economic production. Similar economic causes have similar sociocultural affects |
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Apartheid |
Laws (no longer in effect) in South Africa that physically separated different races into different geographic areas |
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Balkanization/ Balkanized |
Balkanization: a process by which a state breaks down through conflicts among its ethnicities. Balkanized: Descriptive of a small geographic area that could not successfully be organized into one or more stable states because it was inhabited by many ethnicities with complex, longstanding antagonisms toward each other |
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Barrio |
(in the US) the Spanish-speaking quarter of a town or city, especially one with a high poverty level |
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Blockbusting |
A process by which real estate agents convince white property owners to sell their homes at low prices because of fear that persons of color will soon move into the neighborhood |
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Centripital force |
An attitude that tends to unify people and enhance support for a state |
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Chain migration |
Migration of people to a specific location because relatives or members of the same nationality previously migrated there |
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Cultural adaptation |
The process and time it takes a person to integrate into a new culture and feel comfortable within it |
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Cultural shatterbelt |
A politically unstable region where differing cultural elements come into contact and conflict |
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Ethnic cleansing |
A process in which a more powerful ethnic group forcibly removes a less powerful one in order to create an ethnically homogeneous region |
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Ethnic conflict |
A conflict between two or more contending ethnic groups |
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Ethnic enclave |
A geographic area with high ethnic concentration, characteristic cultural identity, and economic activity |
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Ethnic group |
a community or population made up of people who share a common cultural background or descent |
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Ethnic homeland |
the concept of the place with which an ethnic group holds a long history and a deep cultural association – the country in which a particular national identity began |
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Ethnic landscape |
landscape affected and varied by the ethnic group living there |
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Ethnic neighborhood |
an area within a city containing members of the same ethnic background |
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Ethnicity |
Identity with a group of people that share distinct physical and mental trusts as a product of common hereditary and cultural traditions |
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Ethnocentrism |
evaluation of other cultures according to preconceptions originating in the standards and customs of one's own culture |
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Genocide |
The mass killing of a group of people in an attempt to eliminate the entire group from existence |
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Ghetto |
During the middle ages, a neighborhood in a city set up by law to be inhabited only by Jew; now used to denote a section of a city in which members of any minority group live because of social, legal, or economic pressure |
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Nationalism |
Loyalty and devotion to a particular nationality |
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Nationality |
Identity with a group of people that share legal attachment and personal allegiance to a particular place as a result of being born there |
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Plural society |
A place in which people mix but do not combine. Each holds it's own culture, language, ideas, and ways |
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Race |
Identity with a group of people descended from a biological ancestor |
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Racist |
A person who subscribes to the beliefs of racism |
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Segregation |
the enforced separation of different racial groups in a country, community, or establishment |
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Sharecropper |
a tenant farmer especially in the southern U.S. who is provided with credit for seed, tools, living quarters, and food, who works the land, and who receives an agreed share of the value of the crop minus charges |
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Social distance |
the perceived or desired degree of remoteness between a member of one social group and the members of another, as evidenced in the level of intimacy tolerated between them |
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Triangular slave trade |
A practice, primarily during the eighteenth century, in which European ships transported slaves from Africa to Caribbean islands, molasses from the Caribbean to Europe, and trade goods from Europe to Africa |
