Test Bank For Sociology in Action 2nd Edition By Kathleen
Odell Korgen; Maxine P. Atkinson
Ethnicity - ANSWER:Cultural characteristics such as language, religion, taste in food,
shared descent, cultural traditions, and shared geographic locations.
Objective Ethnicity - ANSWER:The ethnic characteristics of your ancestors. Also
known as ethnic origin.
Ethnic Origin - ANSWER:The ethnic characteristics of your ancestors. Also known as
Objective Ethnicity.
Subjective Ethnicity - ANSWER:How you personally identify your ethnicity. Also
known as ethnic identity.
Ethnic Identity - ANSWER:How you personally identify your ethnicity. Also known as
subjective ethnicity.
Race - ANSWER:A socially constructed category used to classify humankind according
to physical characteristics such as skin colour, hair texture, and facial features.
The Difference Between Race and Ethnicity - ANSWER:One is based on physical
features alone, the other is based on cultural characteristics.
Racialization - ANSWER:Racial categories are constructed as different and unequal in
ways that have social, economic, and political consequences.
Carolus Linnaeus - ANSWER:Developed the first scientific classification of race.
(Developed the idea of Americanus, Europaeus, Asiaticus, and Africanus).
Visible Minorities - ANSWER:Persons other than Aboriginal persons, who are non-
Caucasian in race or non-white in colour. Also known as racialized groups.
Racialized Groups - ANSWER:Persons other than Aboriginal persons, who are non-
Caucasian in race or non-white in colour. Also known as visible minorities.
More than 200 - ANSWER:The amount of Canadian ethnicities.
4 percent - ANSWER:Self reported Canadian Aboriginal people.
Cree, Inuktitut and Ojibway - ANSWER:The three most common Indigenous
languages.
Odell Korgen; Maxine P. Atkinson
Ethnicity - ANSWER:Cultural characteristics such as language, religion, taste in food,
shared descent, cultural traditions, and shared geographic locations.
Objective Ethnicity - ANSWER:The ethnic characteristics of your ancestors. Also
known as ethnic origin.
Ethnic Origin - ANSWER:The ethnic characteristics of your ancestors. Also known as
Objective Ethnicity.
Subjective Ethnicity - ANSWER:How you personally identify your ethnicity. Also
known as ethnic identity.
Ethnic Identity - ANSWER:How you personally identify your ethnicity. Also known as
subjective ethnicity.
Race - ANSWER:A socially constructed category used to classify humankind according
to physical characteristics such as skin colour, hair texture, and facial features.
The Difference Between Race and Ethnicity - ANSWER:One is based on physical
features alone, the other is based on cultural characteristics.
Racialization - ANSWER:Racial categories are constructed as different and unequal in
ways that have social, economic, and political consequences.
Carolus Linnaeus - ANSWER:Developed the first scientific classification of race.
(Developed the idea of Americanus, Europaeus, Asiaticus, and Africanus).
Visible Minorities - ANSWER:Persons other than Aboriginal persons, who are non-
Caucasian in race or non-white in colour. Also known as racialized groups.
Racialized Groups - ANSWER:Persons other than Aboriginal persons, who are non-
Caucasian in race or non-white in colour. Also known as visible minorities.
More than 200 - ANSWER:The amount of Canadian ethnicities.
4 percent - ANSWER:Self reported Canadian Aboriginal people.
Cree, Inuktitut and Ojibway - ANSWER:The three most common Indigenous
languages.
