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ETHN 101 test 1
ETHN 101 test 1
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Sociology
Undergraduate 1
02/26/2009

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Ideology
Definition
A political orientation that characterizes the thinking of a group or nation.
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Epistemology
Definition
The theory of knowledge, addresses the questions; What is knowledge?, What do people know?, How do we know what we know? It is a branch of philosophy concerned with the nature and scope of knowledge.
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Ontology
Definition
The study of being or existence and its basic categories and relationships.
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Power
Definition
The ability to define someone else's reality and have them live it as if it were their own
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Social Stratification
Definition
How people are put in different classes by their skin,
the further away you are from the conquering class (ex. Spanish) lower on the social leader you are
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Anglo Saxons
Definition
Derived from northern Germanic Tribes, specifically the Saxons and the Angles that invaded England and displaced other tribes who's lives had already been disrupted by the Celts tribes. All these tribes mingled and the Romans came and this is what Anglo Saxons. So there is no such thing as a pure race
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Race
Definition
There is no such thing as Race from a scientific point of view. Race is a socially constructed concept. It has serous social and economic concisenesses, but its not a scientific idea.
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Pluralism
Definition
An idea or Ideal, Mutual respect between the carious groups in a society for one anothers cultures allowing minorities to express their own culture without experiencing prejudice or hostility
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Five Iroquoian Tribes
Definition
the Mohawk, the Oneida, the Onondaga, the Cayuga, and the Seneca
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Hernando De Soto
Definition
A Spanish explorer and conquistador
Helped Francisco Pizarro concor Peru and the Incans in 1531
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Francisco Coronado
Definition
a Spanish conquistador, who visited New Mexico and other parts of what are now the southwestern United States between 1540 and 1542. Coronado had hoped to conquer the mythical Seven Cities of Gold.
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Pueblo Rebellion 1680
Definition
The Pueblo Revolt of 1680 was an uprising of the Pueblo people against Spanish missionaries in New Mexico.
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Sebastian Rale
Definition
A Jesuit missionarywho worked among the eastern Abenaki people
He worked at an Abenaki village near Quebec. He then spent two years ministering the Illinois Indians at Kaskaskia.
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Powhatan Confederacy
Definition
A group of Natives that linked together two hundred villages and thirty different tribes in Verginia
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Enrique
Definition
The Tiano that was raised by the clerics and then lead the rebellion against the European, he captured and released Don Valanswala, the Spanish Leader that raped his wife and held him captive.
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Anna Cayuna
Definition
Enrique's Wife
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