Sociology

    1. A group whose inherited physical characteristics distinguish it from other groups is known as a . 2. A group having distinctive and shared cultural characteristics is known as a . 3. is a term for a person whose basic humanity has been taken away from them. 4. The forced transfer of a minority group by means of creating poor conditions, such as restrictions on movement, association, and trade, is known as population transfer. 5. The forced transfer of a minority group by means of physical force, usually under threat of arrest or violence, is known as population transfer. 6. is the systematic annihilation or attempted annihilation of a people because of their presumed race or ethnicity. 7. To separate acts from feelings or attitudes in order to commit atrocities and human rights violations against a group of people is to . 8. The process of by which a soon-to-be-former minority group is being absorbed into the mainstream culture is known as . 9. Activities designed to discover, enhance, maintain, or transmit an ethnic or racial identity is known as . 10. The policy of exploiting minority groups for economic gain, of which slavery is a prime example, is known as . 11. The policy of keeping racial–ethnic groups socially separated is known as . 12. Person-to-person or face-to-face discrimination, involving the negative treatment of one person by another, is known as discrimination. 13. Negative treatment of a minority group that is built into a school system or a healthcare system is known as discrimination. 14. A policy that permits or encourages ethnic differences, but does not necessarily provide power or official representation to minority groups, is known as . 15. The diffusion of power among many interest groups that prevents any single group from gaining control of the government is known as . 16. To observe that the meaning and people included in racial groups changes over time, depending on historical, political, and other social forces, is to understand race as a . 17. is a belief in or system of social inequality based on race or ethnicity, which is maintained by the myth of racial superiority and institutions based on this myth. 18. True/false: There is no racial group in the real world today that can accurately be called a pure race: . 19. True/false: Most scientists agree that there are only four racial groups of people today—Caucasian, African, Asian, and Native American: . 20. True/false: In terms of spatial dispersion and the percentage of English-only homes, 2nd and 3rd generation Mexican American immigrants today are not undergoing assimilation: . 21. Written response: Choose one of the racial/ethnic groups discussed in sections 8.5-8.9: European Americans, Latinos, African Americans, Asian Americans, or Native Americans. Discuss in a paragraph how social forces—historical, political, socioeconomic—have shaped the country’s understanding of one of these groups today. In other words, how does the country view one of these groups as a group and how did that come about?