ANTHRO 200 Chapter Notes - Chapter 12: Hypodescent, Ethnocide

• School: Bloomsburg University
• Department: Anthropology
• Course: ANTHRO 200
• Professor: Warner

Document Summary

Ethnic group group distinguished by cultural similarities (shared among members of that group) and differences (between that group and others) ethnic group members share beliefs, values, habits, customs, and language, religious history, geography, kinship and/or race. Ethnicity identification with, and feeling part of an ethnic group and exclusion from certain other groups because of this affiliation. Minority groups subordinate groups in a social-political hierarchy, with inferior power and less secure access to resources than majority groups have. Majority groups superordinate dominant or controlling groups in a social-political hierarchy. Race an ethnic group assumed to have a biological basis. Racism discrimination against an ethnic group assumed to have a biological basis. Descent rule assigning social identity on the basis of some aspect of one"s ancestry. Hypodescent a rule that automatically places the children of a union or mating between members of different socioeconomic groups in the less privileged group. Phenotype an organism"s evident traits, its manifest biology anatomy and physiology.