ANTHROP 2202H Chapter Notes - Chapter 11: De Jure, Imagined Communities, Burakumin
19 Aug 2016
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Group distinguished by cultural similarities and differences; ethnic group members share beliefs, values, habits, customs and norms, and a common language, religion, 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: status shifting. Subordinate groups in a social-political hierarchy, with inferior power and less secure access to resources than majority groups have. Superordinate, dominant, or controlling groups in a social- political hierarchy. An ethnic group assumed to have a biological basis. Discrimination against an ethnic group assumed to have a biological basis. Human biological diversity and the race concept: two approaches to human biological diversity. The attempt to assign humans to discrete categories. In theory, biological race would be geographically isolated subdivision of species: phenotypical traits for human racial classification. Racial labels do not accurately describe skin color. Humans do not fit perfectly into one of the three great races .
