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| a subordinate group whose members have significantly less control or power over their own lives than do the members of a dominant or majority group |
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| a group that is socially set apart because of obvious physical differences |
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| a group set apart from others because of its national origin or distinctive cultural patterns |
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| the mistaken notion of a genetically isolated human group |
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| a doctrine that one race is superior |
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| a sociohistorical process by which racial categories are created, inhabited, transformed, and destroyed |
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| the development of solidarity between ethnic supbroups, as reflected in the terms Hispanic or Asian American |
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| the status of being between two cultures at the same time, sucha s the status of Jewish immigrants in the United States |
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| the systematic study of social behavior and human groups |
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| a structured ranking of entire ethnic group of people that perpetuate unequal rewards and power in a society |
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| as defined by Max Weber,people who share similar levels of wealth |
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| a sociological approach emphasizing how parts of a society are structured to maintain its stability |
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| an element of society tha may disrupt a social system of decrease its stability |
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| a sociological approach that assumes that the social structure is best understood in terms of conflict or tension between competing groups |
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| portraying the problems of racial and ethnic minorities as their fault rather than recognizing society's responsibilities. |
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| a sociological approach introduced by Howard Becker that attempts to explain whi certain people are viewed as deviants and others engaging in the same behavior are not |
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| unreliable, exaggerated, generalizations about all members of a group that do not take individual differences into account |
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| the tendency to respond and to act on the basis of stereotypes, a predisposition that can lead one to validate false definitions |
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| a general term that describes any transfer of population |
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| leaving a country to settle in another |
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| coming into a new country a a permanent resident |
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| worldwide integration of ogvernment policies, cultures, social movements, and financial markets thorugh trade, movements of people, and the exchange of ideas |
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| a foreign power's maintenance of political, social, economic, and cultural dominance over people for an extended period |
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| a view of the global economic system as divided between nations that control wealth and those that provide natural resources and labor |
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| forced deportation of people, accompanied by systematic violence |
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| the physical separation of racial and ethnic groups reappearing after a period of relative integration |
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| a minotiry and a majority group combining to form a new group |
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| the process by which a dominant group and a subordinate group combine through intermarriage to form a new group |
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| diverse racial or ethnic groups or both, forming a new creation, new cultural identity |
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| the process by which a subordinate individual or group takes on the characteristics of the dominant group |
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| mutual respect between the various groups in a society for one another's cultures, allowing minorities to express their own culture without experiencing prejudice or hostility |
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| a negattice attitude toward an entire category of people, such as a racial or ethnic minority |
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| ethnic or racial slurs, including derisive nicknames |
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| the denial of oportunities and equal rights to individuals and groups because of prejudice or for other arbitrary reasons |
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| a person or group blamed irrationally for another person of group's problems or difficulties |
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| authoritarian personality |
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| a psychological construct of a personality type likely to be prejudiced and to use others as scapegoats |
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| a theory by Marx that views racial subordination in the US as a manifestation of the class system inherent in capitalism |
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| the view that prejudice is infleunced by societal norms and situations that encourage or discourage the tolerance or minorities |
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| any arbitrary police-initiated action based on race, ethnicity, or natural origin rather than a person's behavior |
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| use of race neutral principles to defent the racially unequal status quo |
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| the conscious experience of a negative discrepancy between legitimate expectations and present actualities |
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| the minimum level of subsistence below which famlies or individuas should not be expected to exist |
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| the combination of current discrimination with past discrimination created by poor schools and menial jobs |
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| positive efforts to recruit subordinate group members including women or jobs, promotions, and educational opportunities |
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| actions that cause better qualified white men to be passed over for women and minority men |
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| chldren assigned to schools specifically to maintain racially separated schools |
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| whites being dealt with more leniently than blacks, whether at the time of arrest, indictment, conviction, sentencing, or parole |
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| redrawing districts bizarrely to create politically advantageous outcomes. |
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| monies that immigrants return to their countries of origins. remesas |
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| 1930's program of deporting mexicans |
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| a way of life that involves no future planning, no enduring commitment to marriage, and no work ethic. this culture follows the poor even when they move out of the slums or the barrio |
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| continuing dependence of former colonies on foreign countries |
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| pride and lcoseness in the family that result in placing family obligation and loyalty before individual needs |
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| people's opportunities to provide themselves with material goods, positive living conditions, and favorable life experiences |
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