Review guide for Exam 4
Race and Ethnicity
What is melanin?
Chemical in your skin that helps protect you from the sun.
What does vitamin D have to do with Race?
Helps to absorb calcium
Sunlight helps the body produce Vitamin D.
What is racism?
Cultural and ideological perception and evaluation of self and others according to a
racial identity.
What is race?
Ideology of ranked categories dividing up humans.
What is ethnicity?
Shared cultural traditions
Identity
What is the difference between sex and gender?
What is the Other? What is its purpose?
What is society?
Representation of the collective behaviour of its members.
How do we get our gender roles? How are they generally tied to sex roles?
Where do stereotypes come from?
Colonialism
What factors led to the beginning of colonialism by Western Europe?
What are the purposes of Core, Semi-Periphery and Periphery Nations?
Core –colonial nations (U.S., France, Germany, England, Canada, Japan)
Semi-Periphery – industrialized but without the power and authority of core nations
(Spain, Mexico, Eastern Europe, Russia)
Periphery – less industrial, provide raw materials, agricultural goods and human labor.
