RGS 100 - Midterm review Exam Questions And Answers

Race - ANS system of organizing people based on ancestry and selected physical characteristics such as skin color, hair texture, eye shape; these groups perceived to be distinct because of physical appearance. Ethnicity - ANS shared cultural heritage including, but not limited to, a person's birthplace or country of origin, familial ties and lineage, religion, language, and other social practices. Racialization - ANS the granting of race designations to cultural practices. class - ANS Position in the economy; in the distribution of wealth, income, and poverty; power and authority in the workforce. sex - ANS biological and anatomical attributes males and females. gender - ANS Culturally and socially constructed relationships between women and men. The term also encompasses the range of identities that do not correspond to established ideas of women and men. sexual orientation - ANS a person's identity in relation to which sex or genders they are sexually attracted; the sex of partners in emotional-sexual relationship. Socially Constructed - ANS meaning or significance created by human beings in their interactions with one another. Intersexed - ANS a person born with various ambiguities of genital, hormonal, or chromosomal differences. Transgender - ANS a person whose gender identity does not match that which was assigned at birth Cis-gender - ANS Individuals whose gender identity corresponds to their biological sex Stereotypes - ANS the use of "common sense" (often discriminatory) assumptions about groups of people to make predictions about characteristics of an individual. Heteronormativity - ANS the belief that institutionalized heterosexuality should be the standard for legitimate relationships. 1848, Seneca Falls - ANS one of the first conventions to champion Women's Suffrage. State v. Black(NC) 1864 - ANS husband can't be charged with battery unless permanent injury or excessively violent or cruel. In 1664 in MD, woman who married an enslaved person become... - ANS slave of husband's master. Reproductive Labor - ANS unpaid work that maintains and sustains daily life to prepare for the next generation. Done by women in most industrial societies. prejudice - ANS believing one group is superior to another. Prejudice can occur without power or action. racial formation - ANS The process in which race operates as a central part of social relations, which determine a group's place in social, economic, and political institutions. fallacies about racism - ANS individualistic, legalistic, tokenistic, ahistorical, fixed institutional racism - ANS systemic white domination in economic, education, entertainment, labor, law, politics, religion, sex, and war. Interpersonal Racism - ANS systemic white domination in economic, education, entertainment, labor, law, politics, religion, sex, and war.