Exam 10: Race, Ethnicity, and Class: Understanding Identity and Social Inequality

One of Hortense Powdermaker's major insights about prejudice is that it is based on poor reasoning. Explain a historical process wherein "poor reasoning" led to prejudice. What were the radiating outcomes of the prejudice?

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The "natural" order represented in social hierarchies of any society is supported by

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Anthropologists agree that, in addition to prejudice and discrimination, unearned privilege upholds social inequality.

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An anthropologist who uses instrumentalist theories of ethnicity would explain the rise of "Latino" food distributor Goya as

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Censuses interest anthropologists because they

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Why would English colonial leaders portray Africans as uncivilized heathens?

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One of Hortense Powdermaker's major insights about prejudice is that it is based on poor reasoning. Explain a historical process wherein "poor reasoning" led to prejudice. What were the radiating outcomes of the prejudice?

The "natural" order represented in social hierarchies of any society is supported by

Anthropologists agree that, in addition to prejudice and discrimination, unearned privilege upholds social inequality.

An anthropologist who uses instrumentalist theories of ethnicity would explain the rise of "Latino" food distributor Goya as

Censuses interest anthropologists because they

Why would English colonial leaders portray Africans as uncivilized heathens?

Anthropology: Asking Questions About Humanity

Culture: Giving Meaning to Human Lives

Ethnography: Studying Culture

Linguistic Anthropology: Relating Language and Culture

Globalization and Culture: Understanding Global Interconnections

Foodways: Foinding, Making, and Eating Food

Environmental Anthropology: Relating to the Natural World

Economics: Working, Sharing, Buying

Politics: Cooperation, Conflict, and Power Relations

Gender, Sex, and Sexuality: the Fluidity of Maleness and Femaleness

Kinship, Marriage, and the Family: Love, Sex, and Power

Religion: Ritual and Belief

The Body: Biocultural Perspectives on Health and Illness

Materiality: Constructing Social Relationships and Meanings With Things

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