1.

Ethnicity
a. a. Shared cultural heritage
b. b. Common, history, culture, ancestory
c. c. Natives in the US
d. word: greek ethos refers to non greek.
e. Ethos: non jew or Christian
f. Ethnic (shared heritage)

2. Enculturation
a. the process of learning language and symbols, values, beliefs, norms in
environment to which you are exposed.

3. Norms
a. ethnic groups rules shared among members of culture that define how
members behave.
b. Ethos: socially accepted norms
c. Norms: values, beliefs, workloads, ideologies
-Folkway/ediquet norms
-Things we do everyday that we don’t put a lot of thought into.

4. Mores: morality norms

a. Violators severly punished
5. Ideal Culture vs. Real Culture
6. Primordial Model
a. 1960
b. Clifford Geertz
i. studied third world country’s climb to industrialization
ii. noticed transfer of power
c. -ethnically is very central. Ethnic attachments based on assured
kinship and other societies and religious traditions deeply rooted
within individual through enculturation
d. -fundamental to identity

7. CirCumstantial Model
a. 1960 Michael Moerman
b. studied multi ethnic society in Thailand
c. Lue in No Thailand
d. shared traits with other groups.
e. variable and subjective identity.
f. Emic (ethnicity insiders perspective)
g. circumstancial

8. Assimilation (Cultural, Structural, Biological)

9. Pluralism
10. Ethnocentrism
11. Ethnocentric Syndrome (Be able to give examples!)
12. WASP ethnicity
13. Xenophobia
14. Old and New Immigration eras
15. Chain immigration
16. Indentured servants
17. Chain immagration
18. Protestant vs. Catholic
19. Padrones and recruiters
20. Objective vs Subjective aspects of ethnicity
21. White economics (German, Irish, Italian, Polish)