Race and Ethnicity

Flashcards on the sociological concepts of race and ethnicity.

Race

A socially constructed category of people who share biologically transmitted traits that members of a society consider important such as skin color and facial features.

Ethnicity

A socially constructed cultural trait categorized by a distinctive way of life with set customary values of a group.

Socialisation

The process through which ethnicity is learnt and passed down.

White Australia Policy

Underpinned national identity, acknowledged only Anglo-Celtics.

Egalitarian Society

Australia was built on this type of society for British colonists.

Pseudoscience

Race was seen as scientific, but now it's considered this.

Terra Nullius

The idea of 'empty land' in Australia's colonial history.

Racial Classification

'Whiteness' as a racial classification expanded strategically to include Scots, Irish Catholics, and other groups from north-western Europe.

Ethnic Identity

Based on assumed shared ancestry, history, or symbols.

Racial Category

Based on perceived physical or behavioral differences.

Shared Cultural Heritage

Involves language, norms, symbols, and beliefs.

Social Construction

Both race and ethnicity are considered this.

British Ideology

The British arrived in Australia in 1770 with a firmly established ideology of race.

National Identity

It wasn't until after the two world wars that Australians began to form a distinct rooted in their experiences of living in Australia.

Racial Prejudice

People of colour, such as Chinese Australians during the gold rushes, and First Nations peoples encountered ongoing _.

Discrimination

Irish Catholics often faced and were treated as a separate ethnic group.

Social Hierarchy

Racist ideas can maintain _.

Sociological Concepts

Race and ethnicity are .

External Forces

Race is typically assigned from the 'outside' by _.

Cultural Heritage

Ethnicity often arises from a sense of belonging within a community where members share .

Race

Physical characteristics that are biologically determined.

Ethnicity

Shared cultural heritage and way of life that is non-biological.

Race

Assigning someone's identity typically comes from the outside.

Ethnicity

Originates from within the group itself, asserted by its members.

Learnt

Ethnicity is and passed through process of socialisation.

Power

The rules for deciding someone's race depend on who holds in society.

Genetic Ancestry

People of the same ethnicity may share different levels of , depending on how the group defines itself.

Social Process

Ethnicity is meaningful in people's lives and is studied in sociology as a _.

Racial Characteristics

Defining nation in Constitution: cultural identity, skin colour, __.

Egalitarian

Australia was built on society for British colonists.

Hierarchy

Racist ideas can maintain social, economic, and political __.

Cultural Practices

While religion may be a part of a person’s ethnicity, it does not totally define an ethnic group.

Belonging

Ethnicity often arises from a sense of _ within a community where members share cultural heritage.

Anglo-Celtic

In the early colonial period of 19th century Australia, identity was closely linked to ___ experiences

Social Connections

Studying ethnicity helps identify shared experiences among groups based on __, contributing to national identity.

Customary Values

Ethnicity: socially constructed cultural trait categorised by a distinctive way of life with set __ of a group

Religion

__ may be a factor in ethnicity but doesn't totally define an ethnic group

Race

Sociologists consider _ as the use of socially-constructed racial categories to be misleading and harmful

Social Connections

Studying ethnicity helps identify shared experiences among groups based on __, contributing to national identity.

National Identity

Studying ethnicity helps identify shared experiences among groups based on social connections, contributing to __.