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Characteristics of stereotyping
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1.Oversimplified generalization2.Emphasizes variance from societal norms3. Once established, difficult to eradicate
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Ethclasses
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subsocieties resulting from the intersection of stratifications of race and ethnic group with stratifications of social class. (EX: lower middle class white Catholics in a northeastern city, lower class black Baptists in the rural South, and upper class white Jews in a western urban area.)
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Economic determinism
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structural barriers and discrimination
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4 types of people
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Non-Prejudice NondiscriminatorNonprejudice DiscrimitoryPrejudice nondiscrimitoryPrejudice Discrimitor
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Prejudice
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Negative attitudes about certain groups of people.
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Norms
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a culture’s rules of conduct embodying the society’s fundamental expectations.
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Socialization Process
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acquire the values, attitudes, beliefs, and perceptions of their culture or subculture, including religion, nationality, and social class.
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Discrimination
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actual behavior, the practice of differential and unequal treatment of other groups of people, usually along racial, religious, or ethnic lines
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Feminism
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the movement committed to securing and defending equal rights and opportunities for women equal to those of men.
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Cultural Transmission
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each generation transmits its culture to the next generation
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Material culture
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consists of abstract human creations and their meanings in life (ex. Beliefs, customs, ideas, languages, norms, social institutions, and values)all physical objects created by members of a society and the meanings attached to them (cars, cell phones, money, sneakers, or clothing)
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The Reality Construct
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“Culture is something that intervenes between the human organism and its environment to produce actions.”
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Jigsaw Method
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a teaching technique that creates interdependent cooperative learning groups
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Cognitive Level
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beliefs and perceptions about other racial or ethnic groups.
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Social Discrimination
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the creation of “social distance” between groups
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Social Norms
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form the generally shared rules defining what is and is not proper behavior in one’s culture*Stereotyping can be both negative and positive
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Ethnicity
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Membership in a subgroup within an environment dominated by another culture.
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Assimilation
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social sciences the process in which one group takes on the cultural and other traits of a larger group. To be absorbed into the larger group. Give up some of there selves.
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Contingent worker
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a temporary employee, often employed for a specific task.
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Chain migration
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settling in an area already containing family, friends, or compatriots who located there earlier
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Amalgamation Theory
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states that all the diverse peoples blend their biological and cultural differences into an altogether new breed•expressed as A + B + C = D
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Authoritarian Personality
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A set of distinct personality traits, including conformity, insecurity, and intolerance, said to be common to many prejudiced people
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Violence
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the use of physical force to injure somebody or damage something.
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Reputational method
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W. Lloyd Warner asked people how they thought others compared to them and found a well formulated class system in place.
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Economic Competition
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People tend to be more hostile towards others when they feel their security is threatened.
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Multicultural Theory (pluralistic
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Each group retains some of its customs and each group coexist. Live and let live.
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The Bakke decision
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reaffirmed race, but not quotas, as a factor in college admissions.
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Warner’s Yankee City study
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length of residence in the U.S., size of the immigrant population in the community, and nearness of one’s homeland.
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