Unit 1: Sociology Assessment

Includes all shared products of human groups: physical objects, beliefs, values, and behavior.

 

• Ethnicity

• Culture

• Norms

• Race

The tendency to view one’s own culture and group as superior.

• Genocide

• Xenophobia

• Race

• Ethnocentrism

Shared rules of conduct that tell people how to act in specific situations. These enforce our cultural values. 

• Ethnicity

• Culture

• Norms

• Race

The belief that cultures should be judged by their own standards rather than the application of another culture’s standards.

• Patterns of Minority Treatment

• Cultural Relativism

• Minority Group

• Ethnocentrism

Intense or irrational dislike or fear of people from other countries.

• Genocide

• Xenophobia

• Race

• Ethnocentrism

A continuum of behavior showing how dominant groups interact with minority groups.

• Patterns of Minority Treatment

• Cultural Relativism

• Minority Group

• Ethnocentrism

A category of people who share inherited physical characteristics and who are perceived by others as being a distinct group.

• Genocide

• Xenophobia

• Race

• Ethnocentrism

A category of people who share physical characteristics or cultural practices that result in the group being denied equal treatment.

• Patterns of Minority Treatment

• Cultural Relativism

• Minority Group

• Ethnocentrism

The deliberate killing of a group of people, especially those of a particular nation or ethnic group.

• Genocide

• Xenophobia

• Race

• Ethnocentrism

When people share a common culture background and sense of identity that distinguishes one group from another, generally based on national origin, religion, language, customs and values.

• Ethnicity

• Culture

• Norms

• Race