Socially constructed categories based on cultural traits that a society finds important rather than strictly biological traits.

A group that has a shared cultural heritage.

A 20th-century law that says even the smallest amount of African American ancestry is enough to classify someone as black rather than white.

__________ in the past was more commonly used by a society as a way to organize people and distribute power.

Any category of people, who are distinguished by physical or cultural differences, that a society sets aside and subordinates.

Which choice is NOT one of the 6 US Census groups?

A ____________ assumes that something you think to be true for a whole group applies to every individual member of that group too, with little or no evidence.

Exaggerated and simplified descriptions that are applied to every person in a category.

The negative attitudes or beliefs we have about a group that we're consciously aware of.

Any unequal treatment of different groups of people.

Biases that are built into the operation of society's institutions.

Which choice is NOT part of the cycle of social disadvantages?

Prejudice as a defense mechanism on the part of frustrated people who blame another, more disadvantaged group for the troubles that they face.

__________ focuses on how social inequality develops as the result of power conflicts between racial and ethnic groups.

A state in which all races and ethnicities are distinct, but have equal social standing.

The process by which minorities gradually adopt patterns of the dominant culture.

The physical and social separation of categories of people.

Cultural patterns that distinguish society's elite.

The cultural behaviors and ideas that are popular with most people in a society.

The cultural patterns that are broadly in line with a society's cultural ideals and values

Actions of a culture that set it apart from a segment of a society's population.

The practice of judging one culture by the standards of another.

A perspective that focuses on seeing society as a homogenous culture, recognizes cultural diversity while advocating for the equal standing of all cultural traditions.

Cultures form to provide order and cohesiveness in a society(ex. The melting pot theory).

The ideology that states given the opportunity one subculture would eventually create social inequalities and disenfranchise those who belong to other cultures that are at odds with the mainstream.

__________ push back on mainstream culture in an attempt to change how a society functions.

Which choice is NOT one of the ways that cultural change can happen over time?

An accumulation of goodwill and understanding that emanates from a common set of values, beliefs, attitudes, historical experiences, and racial and ethnic links.

The tangible products of human society, such as monuments and visual accomplishments

The intangible products of society, such as values and rules of right and wrong behavior.

A set of shared learned values, beliefs, perceptions, attitudes, modes of living, customs, and symbols.

"A ________ is the highest cultural grouping of people and the broadest level of cultural identity people have short of that which distinguished humans from other species"

Which choice is NOT one of Samuel Huntington's 8 major civilizations of the world?

Which choice is an example of Non-Material culture?