Practice Quiz Chapter 06

. All of the statements below about the j?tis in Gopalpur, India are false except for the following: ________.

. ________ are the most significant categories of inequality in nation-states.

. The development of the concept of racialism is associated with the ________ era.

. According to Faye Harrison, ethnicity is different from race in that ________.

. Nationalist ideologies ________.

. Race can be an achieved status rather than an ascribed status because racial status ________.

. Society in colonial Oaxaca, Mexico was divided along the lines of ________.

. ________ is an example of a naturalizing discourse.

. In the Nicaraguan colourism system, the term negro ________.

. The intentional construction of a collective public identity is referred to as ________.

. Societies that have a permanent social hierarchy are known as ________ societies.

. A group within a hierarchically stratified society whose membership is defined primarily in terms of wealth, occupation and power is referred to as ________.

. ________ is a sense of identification, membership and loyalty to a geopolitically sovereign state.

. The term that best describes the relationship linking individuals of higher and lower status in a stratified society is ________.

. The caste system in India is closely related to ________.

. The following statement best characterizes the contemporary view in anthropology on race: ________.

. The reproductive community of populations isolated from others that occupies a specific niche in nature is known as a ________.

. A group of people that share the same history, culture, language, and even physical characteristics constitutes a ________.

. The following statement best characterizes the Nazi Holocaust: ________.

. Social race refers to a system of social identities that are renegotiated every time an individual enters a new social setting.

. The concepts of race and ethnicity were both developed during the colonial era.

. Reification is central to the practice of racism.

. North American social classes are open and permeable, and upward social mobility can be easily achieved by all.

. Strategic essentialism is the conscious use of essentialist rhetoric as a conscious political strategy to create a temporary solidarity to facilitate a specific social action.

. Relationships of clientage can stabilize stratified societies.

. When ethnic identities are used to assert cultural authority, this is known as racialization.

. The South Asian concept of varna can vary from one community to the next.

. The political coups in Fiji can be seen as a result of failed transformist hegemony.

. The apartheid system formerly in place in South Africa could be considered a caste system based on colour.

. Because it is unique, anthropologists have not used the idea of caste to describe any societies outside of India.

. The system of racial designations assigned to people in Latin America is very different than those used in the United States and Canada.

. When we observe colourism in a society that was once colonized by Europeans, whiteness of complexion is generally socially preferred over brownness or blackness.

. Stratified societies are modern societies that minimize social and financial distinctions among people.

. Patron and client relationships cannot be part of a modern stratified society and are more an artifact of medieval times.

. The characteristics of observable racial differences are based on one's phenotype.

. Today, all evolutionary studies focus on macroevolution.

. Human skin colour will vary in tone as a consequence of our long term adaptations to more or less sunny climates.

. Nationalism has historically had mostly positive consequences for societies that embrace it, as well as for their neighbours.

. Naturalizing discourses are deliberate representations of particular identities that are the result of biology or nature rather than history or culture.

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