Race Flashcards

(6 cards)

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Race

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A system for classifying people who are believed to share common descent based on perceived innate physical similarities

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Essentialism

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Members of a group share a fundamental, inherited innate and fixed quality or characteristic. This outlook presumes that races are natural groupings whose boundaries are determined by deep seated and unchangeable traits that are found in each person.

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Constructivist

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One who hold view that race and gender are social creTions , not biological facts

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Social construct

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A social phenomenon a belief, discourse, or category , that was invented by people and is shaped by the social forces present in the time and place of its creation

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Assimilation

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The process by which immigrants come to be incorporated into their new society by taking on the cultural tastes and practices of new society

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Ethnicity

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A system for classifying people share believed common descent based on perceived cultural differences

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