SOC 330 Study Guide - Midterm Guide: Primordialism, Breast Cancer, Polygenism

• School: Iowa State University
• Department: Sociology
• Course: SOC 330
• Professor: All

Document Summary

Ethnicity: a term which represents social groups with a shared history, sense of identity, geography and cultural roots which may occur despite racial difference; shapes a group"s culture, food, language, music, and customs. Race: a human population considered distinct based on physical characteristics; a social construct. Ethnic enclave: a neighborhood, district, or suburb which retains some cultural distinction from a larger, surrounding area; example = chinatown, Pan-ethnicity: grouping together and labeling of various ethnicities into one all-encompassing group; example = all spanish speakers are latin american rather that whatever their specific country of origin is. Comprehensively thick/thin: heavily applied, lightly applied thick: dominates and thin: little impact. Asserted/assigned: assigned is given to you and asserted is what you accept. Inertia: the fact that people carry collective identities all the time; have an identity that just continues. Happenstance: circumstances that are indifferent to the populations they affect; environment causes shared experience.