AP Human Geography

Chapter 6 Study Guide (Part 3)

What is Ethnicity?
1. What two points about ethnicity are important to understanding it?

2. What does the term nationality typically refer to?

3. What different facets make up a persons ethnic identity?

4. Is ethnicity objective or subjective? Explain.

5. What is ascription?

6. What are the behavioral components of ethnicity? Give at least 3

examples.

7. How are the personal components and behavior components of

ethnicity mutually reinforcing?

8. What are the 3 commonly cited characteristics of indigenous peoples

(you can summarize)?

9. Why are governments interested in identifying and enumerating the

various ethnic groups that live within their borders (give all reasons)?

10.
In what countries is the word race more commonly used as a
classification for census taking?

11.

What term is more commonly used in the rest of the world?

12.
What are the two primary reasons for the census in the United
States?

13.
What types of data are collected by the U.S. Census Bureau
during a census (list all types)?

14.
According to the What a Geographer Sees graphic on pgs. 174175, at what scales does the U.S. Census Bureau collect data (list all)?

15.

How do they subdivide counties to collect data?

16.

How many people are included in each tract?

17.
What is the smallest geographic unit that the U.S. Census Bureau
collects data for?

18.
What ethnic and racial categories were recognized by Directive
15 of the OMB issued in 1977?

19.
In what year was an additional racial category added? What was
the new category?

20.

What is discourse?

21.
What two important issues around which discourse regarding
identity has focused?

22.
What appears to be the U.S. Census Bureaus (and by default,
the U.S. governments) assumptions regarding race and ethnicity?

23.
In brief, what have some sociological scholars pointed out about
the ideology behind the U.S. Census Bureaus racial and ethnic
categories?

24.
What is a former director of the U.S. Census Bureau quoted as
saying about the census?