ENVSOCTY 1HA3 MIDTERM 2 QUESTIONS & ANSWERS
Race - Answer -A subspecies; a physically distinguishable population within a species;
in the context of humans, an entirety socially constructed concept as there are no
genetically distinct subspecies of humans
Species - Answer -A group of organisms able to produce fertile offsprings among
themselves but not with any other group
Genocide - Answer -The organized and systematic effort of destroying a racial ,ethic,
religious, linguistic group through violence, persecution, or both
Examples of genocides - Answer -- forced movements and murder of Armenians during
WW1
- deportations of the USSR
- holocaust
Apartheid - Answer -The South African policy by which groups of people, as defined by
the authorities, were spatially separated between 1948 and 1994
Blacks - Answer -provided with independent states and rights because of the Apartheid
Whites - Answer -maintained their own cultural identity and political power while
exploiting black labour
Afrikaners - Answer -South Africans descended from Dutch that institutionalized
apartheid in South Africa, resulting in segregation
Nativism - Answer -An intense favouring of the rights of native-born inhabitants over
those who are foreign
Ethnicity - Answer -An individual affiliation with a group whose racial, cultural, religious
or linguistic characteristics, or national origins distinguish it from the rest of the
population
Ethnic group - Answer -A group whose members perceive themselves as different from
other because of a common ancestry and/or shared culture
Ethnicity is inheritance spatial - Answer -We can see the spatial manifestation of
ethnicity in many ways
Walking through neighbourhoods
Interrogating, exposing race and racism - Answer -- monuments, statues
- spaces of sport
, Monuments and statues - Answer -whose history are we commemorating? Keep them?
Remove them? Desecrate them?
Spaces of sport - Answer -stadiums and fan behaviour, make one's resistance visible
- Keepernick's kneel
Regional distribution - Answer -type of spatial distribution, race is distributed in specific
regions
Perceived race - Answer -Self identification, perception vs societal perception
Myth of race - Answer -race is a social construction, a set of stories that we tell
ourselves to organize reality and make sense of the world, RATHER THAN a fixed
biological or natural reality
Citizenship - Answer -citizens of canada are canadians,this is our nationality
Identity - Answer -Many canadians also identify themselves as belonging to an ethnicity
or an ethnic group
Globalization - Answer -Increasing global interconnectedness, interdependency
Racism - Answer -a particular form of prejudice that attributes characteristics of
superiority or or inferiority to a group of people who share some physically inherited
characteristics
Racial hierarchies - Answer -preserves power for distinct groups of people
Power - Answer -the capacity to affect outcomes; more specifically, the ability to
dominate others by means of violence, force manipulation, or authority
Chain migration - Answer -A process of movement from one location to another
Ghetto - Answer -a residential district in an urban area with a concentration of a
particular ethnic group
Residential propinquity - Answer -if group members live in close spatial proximity,
social interaction with the larger culture is limited and assimilation is less likely
Assimilation - Answer -The process by which an ethnic group is absorbed into a larger
society and loses its own identity
Acculturation - Answer -The process by which an ethnic group is absorbed by a large
society while still retain aspects if their identity
Race - Answer -A subspecies; a physically distinguishable population within a species;
in the context of humans, an entirety socially constructed concept as there are no
genetically distinct subspecies of humans
Species - Answer -A group of organisms able to produce fertile offsprings among
themselves but not with any other group
Genocide - Answer -The organized and systematic effort of destroying a racial ,ethic,
religious, linguistic group through violence, persecution, or both
Examples of genocides - Answer -- forced movements and murder of Armenians during
WW1
- deportations of the USSR
- holocaust
Apartheid - Answer -The South African policy by which groups of people, as defined by
the authorities, were spatially separated between 1948 and 1994
Blacks - Answer -provided with independent states and rights because of the Apartheid
Whites - Answer -maintained their own cultural identity and political power while
exploiting black labour
Afrikaners - Answer -South Africans descended from Dutch that institutionalized
apartheid in South Africa, resulting in segregation
Nativism - Answer -An intense favouring of the rights of native-born inhabitants over
those who are foreign
Ethnicity - Answer -An individual affiliation with a group whose racial, cultural, religious
or linguistic characteristics, or national origins distinguish it from the rest of the
population
Ethnic group - Answer -A group whose members perceive themselves as different from
other because of a common ancestry and/or shared culture
Ethnicity is inheritance spatial - Answer -We can see the spatial manifestation of
ethnicity in many ways
Walking through neighbourhoods
Interrogating, exposing race and racism - Answer -- monuments, statues
- spaces of sport
, Monuments and statues - Answer -whose history are we commemorating? Keep them?
Remove them? Desecrate them?
Spaces of sport - Answer -stadiums and fan behaviour, make one's resistance visible
- Keepernick's kneel
Regional distribution - Answer -type of spatial distribution, race is distributed in specific
regions
Perceived race - Answer -Self identification, perception vs societal perception
Myth of race - Answer -race is a social construction, a set of stories that we tell
ourselves to organize reality and make sense of the world, RATHER THAN a fixed
biological or natural reality
Citizenship - Answer -citizens of canada are canadians,this is our nationality
Identity - Answer -Many canadians also identify themselves as belonging to an ethnicity
or an ethnic group
Globalization - Answer -Increasing global interconnectedness, interdependency
Racism - Answer -a particular form of prejudice that attributes characteristics of
superiority or or inferiority to a group of people who share some physically inherited
characteristics
Racial hierarchies - Answer -preserves power for distinct groups of people
Power - Answer -the capacity to affect outcomes; more specifically, the ability to
dominate others by means of violence, force manipulation, or authority
Chain migration - Answer -A process of movement from one location to another
Ghetto - Answer -a residential district in an urban area with a concentration of a
particular ethnic group
Residential propinquity - Answer -if group members live in close spatial proximity,
social interaction with the larger culture is limited and assimilation is less likely
Assimilation - Answer -The process by which an ethnic group is absorbed into a larger
society and loses its own identity
Acculturation - Answer -The process by which an ethnic group is absorbed by a large
society while still retain aspects if their identity
