Help
Options
Didn't know it?
click below
click below
Knew it?
click below
click below
Don't Know
Remaining cards (0)
Know
retry
shuffle
restart
0:00
Embed Code - If you would like this activity on your web page, copy the script below and paste it into your web page.
Normal Size Small Size show me how
Normal Size Small Size show me how
Ethnicity Vocab
Derived from Martha Sharma for a
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| Acculturation | The process of adopting cultural traits or social patterns of another group |
| Adaptive strategy | A term used by anthropologist Yehudi Cohen to describe the economic organization of a society (foraging, horticulture, agriculture, pastoralism, or industrialism) |
| Assimilation | The blending or fusing of minority groups into a dominant society |
| Barrio | A chiefly Spanish-speaking community or neighborhood in a U.S. city |
| Chain migration | The instance of a family migrating to a new country shortly after one family member settles there |
| Cultural adaptation | Adjustment in cultural patterns to better suit an environment or situation, or to assimilate into a host culture |
| Cultural shatterbelt | A politically unstable region where differing cultural elements come into contact and conflict |
| Ethnic cleansing | The planned, deliberate removal of persons of a particular ethnic group from an area, by force or intimidation, in order to render that location ethnically homogenous |
| Ethnic conflict | War between ethnic groups, often as a result of ethnic nationalism (may result in genocide) |
| Ethnic enclave | A neighborhood, district, or suburb which retains some cultural distinction from a larger surrounding area (also, "Ethnic neighborhood") |
| Ethnic group | A group of people who identify with each other based on a common religion, physical appearance, language, national origin, etc. |
| Ethnic homeland | The percieved hearth of a particular ethnic group to which they have a long history and a deep cultural association with |
| Ethnic landscape | The visible imprint of an ethnic group on a landscape |
| Ethnic neighborhood | A neighborhood, district, or suburb which retains some cultural distinction from a larger, surrounding area (also, "Ethnic enclave) |
| Ethnicity | A particular racial, national, or cultural group that shares of customs, beliefs, and language (or identity with such a group) |
| Ethnocentrism | Regarding one's own ethnicity as being superior to others and judging other cultures from the perspective of your own |
| Ghetto | A section of a city in which members of any minority group live because of social, legal, or economic pressure |
| Plural society | A society in which two or more ethnic groups occupy the same territory but maintain their separate cultural identities |
| Race | A population categorized by various heritable characteristics, such as bone structure and skin color |
| Segregation | The separation of people of different races or ethnic groups in schools, housing, or public facilities due to discrimination |
| Social distance | The perceived distance between social strata, often amongst different socioeconomic or ethnic groups |
| Dowry death | The deaths of young women who are murdered or driven to suicide by husbands or in-laws over failure to produce a sufficient dowry (common in South Asia) |
| Enfranchisement | To endow with the rights of citizenship, especially the right to vote |
| Gender | The condition of being female or male; sex |
| Gender gap | A disproportionate difference, as in attitudes and voting preferences, between the sexes |
| Infanticide | The act of intentionally killing an infant (esp. when committed by the child's mother) |
| Longevity gap | A disproportionate difference in lifespan between populations (as in sexes, races, ethnic groups, etc.) |
| Maternal mortality rate | The number of maternal deaths due to childbearing per 100,000 live births |
Created by:
studyaphg
Popular AP Human Geography sets