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What percent of the total U.S. population is African American?
13%
What percent of generals in the U.S. Army who are African Americans?
8%
T or F
Blacks and whites all think they know a great deal about race.
True
They merely hold socially constructed conceptions that vary with the positions they hold.
What percent of the total population of African Americans live in gettoes?
20%
How many species of human beings are there on the earth at this time?
1
Human society is considered what system?
sociocultural system
The totality of the sign systems shared in a society such as our culture is a system called _________.
Societies
Biological members, material products, culture and social structure are four primary sets of parts in _______ societies.
*these sets of parts are called components of sociocultural systems.
human
Genetics and Demography:
The biological members subset of parts includes the people of the society and the domesticated animals controlled by those people.
.
What do we call the hereditary nature of the people as beings?
Genetics
What do we call distribution by attributes and geography?
Demographics
Unscientific definitions of race are based on suposed external attributes- also known as __________ attributes.
Visible
True of False
"race is not a valid biological category than can tell us about the behavior of members of the category.
True
Define Biased social construction
Our everyday understanding of race.
Reductionism and Reciprocalism see Constructing Race 49- table 2.2
.
When there is no social movement in and no movement out of a category of people, we call that category a _____.
caste
*ex. Japanese
Racism is not fully expressed until the supposed inferior race is thought to be ________.
subhuman
Pierre van den Berghe: comparative perspective- Constructing Race pg 58
.
The attributes of the parts of the society must be studies as well as the relationships between the parts must be examined is an example of what when applying the systems perspective.
reciprocalism
What rebellion was in 1676?
Bacon's Rebellion
What year was the Naturalization Act?
1970
The naturalization Act of 1965 allowed whites to be considered
whites
Once instituted race continued by its own inertial to split the middle and lower classes by race and to focus political issues on race rather than _____.
Class
Reductionism and reciprocalism page 8 of slides.
.
What is a set of expectations that is generally agreed upon by a group or community to apply to an occupant of a position
role
What are our imgainative conceptions of ourselves as occupant of positions?
role identities
What is the responses of our audience which confirm the performance of a role
role-support
Are our role-identities sources of motivation to action
yes
What are organizations in which some people must be controlled around the clock
total institutions
Zimbardo says situations are created by ________
systems
What is a set of prcedures, including the manipulation of information that alter our own actions and biological condition, the actions and beliefs of other persons and our physical and biological environments
control
A person's self-presumed knowledge of the penomena of the world organized through a perspective is ________
understanding
What is the self-percieved purpose of a person's actions, life and life in general.
Meaning
*meaning gives usa goal or directiontoward which we attempt to exert control.
The central means to establish and maintain inequality areusing understanding and meaning to reinforce control.
.
General forms of social organization form normal to cult chart pg. 85
.
True or False
The fundamental attribution error is equal to reductionism.
True
Name three of the situation influences
Social structure, Culture and technology.
Not being able to give a scientific explanation of the workings of the complex physical, biological, and social systems in which we live leads people toward _________ _________.
Conspiratorial thinking
T or F
Authority is a legitimate power
True
________ is the ability to make someone do smething against her or his interests.
Power
Authorities reveal knowledge and interpret _____.
signs