Brazil Research in Brazil Nepal
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branca, morena, morena clara (light brown), morena escura (dark brown), negra, preta (black), escura (dark), clara (light), and mulata.
What are the most common terms used to reference race in Belmonte?
100
Children especially, but some adults as well, judge people based on what they look like and not ancestry to match them to a race.
What were the results for the first study?
100
1. A "race" of people with "red" faces, are short, stocky, small-eyed, and small nosed. 2. The Mongol National Organization.
What are "Mongols"? What is the MNO?
200
A cognitive bias in the way that human beings process certain categories.
What is essentialism?
200
1. Sex. 2. Height. 3. Weight. 4. Race. 5. Class
What are the 5 things people attempt to visually change in order to fit into a certain bloco.
200
A caste or ethnic group that is not related to biological differences, but cultural practices.
What is a "jati"?
300
To determine whether young children think that "natural kind" categories of folk biology are given their identity by nature or nurture.
What is the "adoption paradigm" used for?
300
1. Cosmetic (use of make-up/things to temporarily change appearance). 2. Embodied (permanently changing exterior)
What are the two methods of changing appearance and describe them?
300
Race appears to be apart of the natural order of things: both dominant and subordinate peoples take for granted the idea that social divisions have a biological basis.
What is Gramski's concept of hegemony?
400
1. There were a multitude of racial terms used in different ways by different people. 2. the adoption paradigm story does not address racial mixing. 3. in Belmonte there are no clear markers of cultural or linguistic differences between racial groups.
What are the challenges the author saw to the adoption paradigm?
400
People accepted that they could change height, weight, and class, but you cannot change your sex. Eighth graders didn't accept you could change your race, but fifth graders and adults accepted you could.
What were the findings for Study 2?
400
Mongol, Negroid, and Aryans.
What are the three lineages of human kind?
500
1. What role does ancestry play in determining racial identity and how is that influenced by observable physical features? 2. Do people believe that a person can change their race?
What two questions did the author try to answer in his studies?
500
Mongols are honest, dependable, brave, and fierce fighters. Aryans are clever, crafty, but physically weak.
What are physical differences between Mongols and Aryan that are linked to differences and behavioral traits?






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