Examples of descent in the following topics:
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- Descent, like family systems, is one of the major concepts of anthropology.
- A descent group is a social group whose members have common ancestry.
- An unilineal society is one in which the descent of an individual is reckoned either from the mother's or the father's line of descent.
- With matrilineal descent, individuals belong to their mother's descent group.
- With patrilineal descent, individuals belong to their father's descent group.
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- Devah Pager and Lincoln Quillian compared employers' responses on questions involving race-related hiring practices to their actual hiring practices by sending matched pairs of young men to apply for jobs, either both of European descent or both of African descent, but one of the men had a criminal record.
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- While indigeneity is associated with Native American biological descent, it is defined culturally rather than genetically.
- Indigenous groups are formally defined in Mexico as groups that speak one of sixty-two officially recognized indigenous languages; while indigeneity is associated with Native American biological descent, it is defined culturally rather than genetically.
- Mexicans of European descent, often called "blancos" ("whites") or "güeros" in Mexican Spanish, have light skin and predominantly European features.
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- Immigrant communities of Arab and South Asian descent make up the majority of American Muslims.
- Department of State, the largest ethnic groups of American Muslims are those of South Asian, Arab and African-American descent.
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- Batson et. al. provide a clear summary of differences in religiosity by race (limited presently to Americans of African and European descent).
- If you are an American of African descent, you are more likely to:
- Batson et. al. attributes this to the religious institutions' role in the lives of Americans of African descent.
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- This is a set of procedures by which ethnographers discover and record connections of kinship, descent, and marriage using diagrams and symbols.
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- Members of a nation share a common identity and usually a common origin in their sense of ancestry, parentage, or descent.
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- Radcliffe-Brown proposed that most stateless, "primitive" societies that lack strong centralized institutions are based on an association of corporate-descent groups.
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- While it was intended as a shift away from the racial injustices of America's past often associated with the historical views of the "Black" race, it largely became a simple replacement for the terms Black, Colored, Negro and similar terms, referring to any individual of dark skin color regardless of geographical descent.
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- South Africans of European descent (the minority) discriminated against the majority African population (the majority).