Race, Class, and Ethnicity Crossword Puzzle

QUESTIONS LIST:

• slavery : the most extreme form of social stratification, based on the legal ownership of people.
• open : a social system with ample opportunity to move from one class to another.
• genocide : the deliberate and systematic extermination of a racial, ethnic, national, or cultural group.
• minority : group that is systematically denied the same access to power and resources available to society's dominant groups though they are not necessarily fewer in number than the dominant groups.
• assimilation : a pattern of relations between ethnic or racial groups in which the minority group is absorbed into the mainstream or dominant group, making society more homogenous.
• ethnicity : a socially defined category based on common language, religion, nationality, history, or another cultural factor.
• racism : a set of beliefs about the claimed superiority of one racial or ethnic group; used to justify inequality and often rooted in the assumption that differences among groups are genetic.
• closed : a social system with very little opportunity to move from one class to another.
• wealth : according to weber, what determines a person’s social class?
• prestige : the social honor people are given because of their membership in well-regarded social groups.
• caste : a form of social stratification in which status is determined by one's family history and background and cannot be changed.
• segregation : the physical and legal separation of groups by race or ethnicity.
• race : a socially defined category based on real or perceived biological differences between groups of people.
• vertical : _ social mobility is the movement between different class statuses, often called upward or downward mobility.
• social mobility : movement of individuals or groups within the hierarchical system of social classes.
• prejudice : an idea about the characteristics of a group that is applied to all members of that group and is unlikely to change regardless of the evidence against it.
• horizontal : _ social mobility refers to the changing of jobs within a social class.