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SOCI Midterm
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| Reflexivity | Critical reflection on the knowledge we produce and our role in producing this knowledge |
| Ethnography | Studies a group’s way of life from the native point of view - Instead of studying people as an outsider looking in, you learn from people from the inside |
| Qualitative research | The meanings, concepts, definitions, characteristics, metaphors, symbols and descriptions of things |
| Global Political Economy | Relations between nations (there are lines that connect colonial powers and colonized countries) |
| Model Minority Myth | Premised on anti-blackness racism: Asians are non-white but successful, but why not black people |
| Racial Formation Theory | Race is fundamental to how society is organized |
| Racialization | the sociohistorical process which racial categories are created, inhabited, and transformed benefits the state (government, military, corporations) |
| Racial Project Ex | Criminalization of Migrants |
| Race | a group of people who share physical and cultural trait, and perceived common ancestry |
| Stereotype: Economic | Murder of Vincent Chin (unemployed workers murdered him because they thought he, who was mistaken as Japanese Americans, were stealing all the jobs |
| Stereotype: Political | WW2 → Japanese American put into internments Roosevelt signing Executive Order 9066 anyone (Japanese) who seemed suspicious |
| Stereotype: Biological | In late 19th century, white nativists spreading xenophobic propaganda about Chinese uncleanliness in SF |
| Stereotype: Sexual | Seen as seductive and exotic |
| Intersectionality | Race, class, gender together can explain the conditions of life opportunities, and constraints - These interactions: “interlocking systems of oppression” |
| Vertical Mosaic | To understand power hierarchy within a diverse socioeconomic society |
| Orientalism | One way that frames Asian Americans in a certain way |
| Panethnic Identities | Used to group various ethnic groups together based on their related cultural origins Products of political and social processes |
| Ethnic Identities | Primodialism or "communities of culture" |