Ethnic Studies Test 2 (Ch 5-8)

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Achieved status

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A position of status attained by something a person does or accomplishes rather than by birth.

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Annexation

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An expansion of territory by one group to take control over territory formerly under control of another group.

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Ascribed status

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Any characteristic or status determined by birth such as race, sex or who one's parents are.

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Caste system

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A system of social inequality with two or more rigidly defined and unequal groups, membership in which is determined by birth and passed from generation to generation.

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Colonization

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A form of intergroup contact that occurs when one group migrates into an area occupied by another group and subordinates that indigeneous group.

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Fluid competitive race relations

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A pattern of race relations best described as a class with racial inequalities remaining from a past racial caste system.

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Immigration

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Migration of one group into an area controlled by another group.

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Paternalistic race relations

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A pattern of intergroup relations usually found in agricultural, preindustrial societies.

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Rigid competitive race relations

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A pattern of race relations resembling an unstable caste system

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Segregation

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The separation of two groups into separate neighborhoods, schools, workplaces, and so on.

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Colonized minority

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A minority group that initially became a part of the society it lives in through conquest or annexation.

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Immigrant minority

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A minority group that voluntarily migrated into the country or society in which it lives.

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Internal colonialism

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A theory that argues that colonized minorites experience discrimination different in kind or degree from that experienced by immigrant minorities and as a result have less upward mobility and less assimilation.

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Segregation

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The separation of two groups into separate neighborhoobs, schools, workplaces and so on.

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Social distance

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A preference to avoid certain kinds of contact with minority groups.

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Relative deprivation

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The experience of having less of scarce resources than other individuals or groups, or less than what is believed to be a fair share.

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Afrocentrism

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An effort by African Americans to emphasize and value African history, philosophy, and culture, particularly (but not only) in education.

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Amalgamation

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The combination of two racial or ethnic groups into one through marriage or other sexual contact.

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Cultural assimilation

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A type of assimilation in which two or more groups gradually come to share a common culture, that is, similar attitudes, values, language, beliefs, lifestyles, and rules about behavior.

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Cultural pluralism

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A pattern in which different racial, ethnic, or other groups retain cultural features that are specific to each group but hold some others that are common to all groups in society.

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Enviromental racism

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A tendency for minority groups to be placed at disproportionate risk of exposure to hazardous substances and enviromental contaminants.

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Seperatism

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The establishment of, or the attempt to establish, entirely seperate societies made up of distinct racial, ethnic, or other groups that formerly existed within one society.

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Structural assimilation

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A type of assimilation in which two or more groups gradually come to share a common social structure; that is, they share common institutions, organizations, and friendship networks and have roughly equal positions within these structures.

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Structural pluralism

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A situataion in which two or more groups operate within a common social structure up to a point, but some institutions, organizations, and patterns of interpersonal contact are distinct and separate for each group.

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