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| pattern of migrants settling near family and friends |
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| unequal treatment based on social customs and traditions |
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| unequal treatment established by law |
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| combination of factors that drive one from the homeland and lure that migrant to another locale |
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| (Taeubers) a measurement tool for determining the level of segregation in a neighborhood (0-100) |
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| intense grouping of a racial group within a geographic area |
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| parallel social institutions |
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| a minority group, community support network of clubs, churches, organizations, stores, and media to share the commonality of language and culture |
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| targeting individuals of a specific group on the assumption they are more likely to commit illegal acts than are individuals of other groups |
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| organization of space that reflects and reinforces unequal distinctions due to differences in gender status |
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| a setting in which members of a particular group are made uncomfortable because of comments made, images displayed, or other inappropriate behavior |
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| Suttles' term for a marked social order based on race and ethnicity |
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| federal funding of slum clearance and the building of new buildings in their place |
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| legal right of government to seize private property for public use, given fairly compensated |
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| movement of more affluent North Americans back into older, often decaying areas in the city |
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| an approach to urban design incorporating sociological principles in physical design, such as walkability, mixed building types and activities, and social interaction |
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| policy of moving children through grades with their age peers regardless of learning achievement |
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| schools offering special programs to attract students from many districts to achieve integration |
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| used to place a child in the public or private school of a parent's choice by applying the state's share of the cost for educating the child |
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| private schools that operate with less state regulation so teachers and administrators can try out new teaching strategies |
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| lack of sufficient resources to secure the basic necessities of life |
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| lack of resources of some people in comparison to others who have more |
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| physical design that promotes safety through ongoing natural surveillance |
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| an approach that increases interaction and cooperation between law enforcement agencies and the people and neighborhoods they serve |
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| an aggressive tactic of deploying increased patrols, decoys, and sting operations in locales identified through frequent computer analyses as high-crime areas |
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| principal cities that are extremely large compared to other cities in the country |
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| extent of the dominance of a country's primate city, computed by dividing its population by the pop. of its 2nd largest city |
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| when a dominant group or country establishes control over another country or area, often for exploitation purposes |
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| a formal policy of racial segregation that once existed in South Africa |
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| average number of children a woman has during her lifetime |
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| a city with continuous spread around it encompassing a few other towns and outgrowths, based on the core town; a metropolitan area |
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| a metropolitan area that constitutes its own megalopolis because the pop within its municipal boundary is greater than 10 million |
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