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Question 1

Aboriginal Peoples

Answer 1

The original inhabitants of a country or terrritory.

Question 2

Acculturation

Answer 2

A process of cultural transformation initiated by contacts between different cultures.

Question 3

Action Theory

Answer 3

As a subject, the individual is seen as exercising agency, voluntarism, giving meaning to objects and events and acting with intent.

Question 4

Affirmative Action

Answer 4

The intent of such policies is to counteract perceived disadvantages experienced by protected groups.

Question 5

Ageism

Answer 5

The assumption that a person’s age should determine their social status.

Question 6

Alienation

Answer 6

Individuals lose control and direction of their social life.

Question 7

Altruism

Answer 7

Social behavior in which individuals give consideration to the interests and welfare of others.

Question 8

Anti-Semitisim

Answer 8

A negative and hostile attitude toward Jews and the Jewish faith.

Question 9

Apartheid

Answer 9

A strict policy of racial segregation.

Question 10

Assimilation

Answer 10

Where an ethnic group forcibly loses distinctiveness and becomes absorbed into a majority culture.

Question 11

Autocracy

Answer 11

Obsolete power and authority in the hands of one person.

Question 12

Band

Answer 12

A designated group of Indigenous individuals.

Question 12

Capital

Answer 12

An accumulation of goods or wealth.

Question 13

Civil Society

Answer 13

It generally refers to the social interactions between individuals.

Question 13

Class

Answer 13

A group of individuals sharing a common situation.

Question 14

Coercion

Answer 14

The use of force or commands to gain obedience.

Question 14

Colonialism

Answer 14

Colonialism is a form of imperialism.

Question 15

Community

Answer 15

A society where peoples relations with each other are direct and personal.

Question 16

Conservatism

Answer 16

Conservatives are strongly associated with the idea of a reduced role for government (privatization, reduced social programs) and promotion of free markerts.

Question 17

Critical Theory

Answer 17

Critical theory attacks social ideas and practices which stand in the way of social justice and human emancipation (the rational organization of society as an association of free people).

Question 18

Cultural Genocide

Answer 18

The process of undermining, suppressing, and ultimately eliminating native cultures.

Question 19

Culture

Answer 19

The shared knowledge and beliefs of members of society.

Question 20

Democracy

Answer 20

A system of government where citizens have equal rights.

Question 21

Deviance

Answer 21

Violations of social norms.

Question 22

Discrimination

Answer 22

Unequal treatment of individuals.

Question 23

Double Standard

Answer 23

Accords less freedom and choice to one group than the other.

Question 24

Emigration

Answer 24

Migration out of a nation.

Question 25

Ethnic Group

Answer 25

Ethnic groups are groups that migrated from a situation to be accepted into the dominant culture.

Question 26

Ethnocentrism

Answer 26

The assumption that the culture of one's own group is superior to all others.

Question 27

Fatalistic Suicide

Answer 27

Suicide occurring within social conditions where the individual experiences pervasive oppression.

Question 28

Gender Gap

Answer 28

The gap between the political party preferences of men and women.

Question 29

Genocide

Answer 29

The systematic killing of an entire ethnic or racial community.

Question 30

Glass Ceiling

Answer 30

Invisible barriers that block the promotion of women.

Question 31

Globalization

Answer 31

The expansion of the size and power of multinational corporations.

Question 32

Homophobia

Answer 32

Uncontrollable fear of homosexuals and homosexuality.

Question 33

Ideology

Answer 33

A set of ideas that justify a desired arrangement of power.

Question 34

Immigration

Answer 34

The movement of people into a country or territory.

Question 35

Imperialism

Answer 35

Domination by a country over others for political and economic objectives.

Question 36

Indigenous Peoples

Answer 36

Inhabitants of a land prior to colonization.

Question 37

Liberalism

Answer 37

Liberalism upholds free markets, it also places great value on equal of opportunity.

Question 38

Manifest Destiny

Answer 38

The God given destiny of the colonies.

Question 39

Multiculturalism

Answer 39

A condition of cultural pluralism and the attitudes.

Question 40

Pan-Indianism

Answer 40

All Indigenous populations the same.

Question 41

Politics

Answer 41

All that relates to the way a society is governed.

Question 42

Power

Answer 42

Individuals or institutions that achieve goals even if opposed by others.

Question 43

Prejudice

Answer 43

Attitudinal component of discrimination.

Question 44

Queer Culture

Answer 44

Identifies gay and lesbian culture or studies.

Question 45

Race

Answer 45

Groups of people that did not migrate to America of their free will.

Question 46

Religiosity

Answer 46

The degree to which one believes in and is involved in religion.

Question 47

Religious Right People

Answer 47

Believe in a free market economy and small government and socially conservative views: fundamentalist religions, against abortion, intolerant of homosexuality, non-supportive of single parent mothers, propose censorship of children's reading material, recommend reducing rights of criminal offenders, etc.

Question 48

Religious Left

Answer 48

The most common religious viewpoint that might be described as "left-wing" is social justice, or care for impoverished and oppressed groups. Supporters of this might encouraged universal health care, welfare provisions, subsidized education, foreign aid, and affirmative action for improving the conditions of the disadvantaged. Stemming from egalitarian values, adherents of the Christian left consider it part of their religious duty to take actions on behalf of the oppressed. As nearly all major religions contain some kind of requirement to help others, social justice has been cited by various religions as a movement that is in line with their faith.

Question 49

Sexism

Answer 49

Actions or attitudes that discriminate against people based solely on their gender.

Question 50

Socialism

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Equality within a society that is not dependent upon the exploitation of one group by another.

Question 51

Society

Answer 51

A community sharing a common culture and common activities.

Question 52

Sovereignty

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The authority possessed by the governing individual or institution of society.

Question 53

Stereotype

Answer 53

A social construction which may have some basis in reality.

Question 54

Third World

Answer 54

Third world countries were those large political communities in the initial stages of development.

Question 55

Tribalism

Answer 55

Indigenes beliefs often referred to as tribal.

Question 56

Underclass

Answer 56

A group that is not in a regular economic or social relationship with the rest of the community.

Question 57

Values

Answer 57

Prescriptions of what is right, moral, and desirable.

Question 57

Xenophobia

Answer 57

An individual's irrational and obsessive hatred of people perceived as different and foreign.

Question 57

Working Class

Answer 57

Synonymous with blue-collar workers.