Chapter 7 Vocab

Question 1

Laws (no longer in effect) in South Africa that physically separated different races into different geographic areas

Answer 1

Apartheid

Question 2

Process by which a state breaks down through conflicts among ethnicities

Answer 2

Balkanization

Question 3

Descriptive of a small geographic area that could not successfully be organized into one or more stable states b/c it was inhabited by many ethnicities with complex, long-standing antagonisms toward each other.

Answer 3

Balkanized

Question 4

A process b which real estate agents convince white property owners to sell their houses at low prices because of fear that persons of color will soon move into the neighboorhood

Answer 4

Blockbusting

Question 5

An attitude tha ttends to unify people and enhance support for a statee

Answer 5

Centripetal force

Question 6

Process in which a more powerful ethnic groups forcibly removes a less powerful one in order to create an ethnically homogeneous region.

Answer 6

Ethnic Cleansing

Question 7

Identity with a group f people that share distinct physical and mental traits as a product of common heredity and cultural traditions

Answer 7

Ethnicity

Question 8

State that contains more than one ethnicity

Answer 8

Multiethnic State

Question 9

State that contains two or more ethnic groups with traditions of self-determination that agree to coexist peacefully by recognizing each other as distinct nationalities.

Answer 9

Multinational State

Question 10

Loyalty and devotion to a particular nationality

Answer 10

Nationalism

Question 11

Identity with a group of people that share legal attachment and personal allegiance to a particular place as a result of being born there.

Answer 11

Nationality

Question 12

A state whose territory corresponds to that occupied by a particular ethnicity that has been transformed into a nationality

Answer 12

Nation-State

Question 13

Identity with a group of people descended from a common ancestor

Answer 13

Race

Question 14

Belief that race is the primary determinant of human traits and capacities and that racial differences produce an inherent superiority of a particular race.

Answer 14

Racism

Question 15

A person who subscribes to the beliefs of racism

Answer 15

Racist

Question 16

Concept that ethnicities have the right to govern themselves

Answer 16

Self-Determination

Question 17

A person who works fields rented from a landowner and pays the rent and repays loans by turning over t the landowner a share of the crops

Answer 17

Sharecropper

Question 18

A practice, primarily during the eighteenth century, in which European ships transported slaves from Africa to Caribbean islands, molasses from the Caribbean to Europe, and trade goods from Europe to Africa

Answer 18

Triangular Slave Trade

Question 19

Status people get through their own individual accomplishments and action in life

Answer 19

Achieved status

Question 20

Status into which people enter automatically without choice, usually at birth or some special event in the life cycle

Answer 20

Ascribed Status

Question 21

Example of this type of discrimination: KKK

Answer 21

Attitudinal Discrimination

Question 22

Mass Murder ex. Nazi Germany

Answer 22

Genocide

Question 23

Formalized discrimination by a government of other institution (ex apartheid)

Answer 23

Institutional Discrimination

Question 24

Devaluation of a given group based on its characteristics

Answer 24

Prejudice