Chapter 11

The process of change that a minority group may experience when it moves to a country where another culture dominates; the minority is incorporated into the dominant culuture to the point that it no longer exists as a separate culture unit

Within a nation or empire, dominiation by one ethnic group of nationality and its culture/ideology over others-- e.g. the dominance of Russian people, language, and culture in the former Soviet Union

Rule assigning social identity on the basis of some aspect of one's ancestry

Policies and practices that harm a group and its members

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 norms, and a common language, religion, history, geography, kinship, and/or race

Identification with, and feeling part of, an ethinic group, and esclusion from certain other groups because of this affiliation

Destruction by a dominante group of the culture of an ethnic group

Policies aimed at, and/or resulting in, the physical extinction(through mass murder) of a people perceived as a racial group, that is, as sharing defining physical, genetic, or other biological characteristics

A rule that automatically places the children of a union or mating between members of different socioeconomic groups in the less privileged group

Superordinate, dominant, or controlling groups in a social-political hierarchy

Subordinate groups in a social-political hierarchy, with inferior power and less secure access to resources than majority groups have

The view of cultural diveristy in a country as something good and desirable; a multticultural society socializes individuals not only into the dominant(national) culture, but also into an ethnic culture

Once a synonym for "ethnic group", designating a single culture sharing a language, religion, history, territory, ancestry, and kinship; now usually a synonym for "state" or "nation-state"

An autonomous political entity, a country like the United States or Canada

Ethnic groups that once had, or wish to have or regain, autonomous political status(their own country)

An organism's evident traits, its "manifest biology"-- anatomy and physiology

A society that combines ethnic contrasts, ecological specialization (i.e. use of different environemental resources by each ethnic group), and the economic interdependence of those groups

Devaluing(looking down on) a group because of its assumed behavior, values, capabilities, or attributes

An ethnic group assumed to have a biological basis

Discrimination against an ethnic group assumed to have a biological basis

People who have been forced(involuntary refugees) or who have chosen (voluntary refugees) to flee a country, to escape persecution or war

Fixed ideas-- often unfavorable--about what members of a group are like