Wetbacks In Latin America

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Values/ pg.12: The standards by which people define what is desirable or undesirable, good or bad, beautiful or ugly.
Wetbacks are people who enter the United States illegally; this is because the people who come here have their values changed. People in other countries usually leave home to find jobs because the jobs in their own country are gone or disappearing. The money they make from the job they hope to get in the United States would be used to help out their families back home. These people are superstitious for when they travel they would pray before travelling. Also they would keep garlic and hair gel for safe travel. //220//
Negative Sanction/ pg. 45: An expression of disapproval for breaking a norm, ranging from a mild, informal
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This is because the definition of the word means someone that comes illegally into America. This title follows them throughout their journey to the country. When Latin Americans travel to America they have to go through Mexico and they end up being treated poorly in the country because of what they are doing. //115//
New Technology/ pg.56: The emerging technologies of an era that have a significant impact on social life.
Much of these have affected the citizens of lesser developed countries that were not prepared for its effects. This happens in Latin America in which the old mills’ workers are losing their jobs when the new tech in the mill is doing the job for them. This causes many of the workers to have to leave home to go to America for a job because they may not have one in the near future. This also affects the chances that they will be able to get into America. This is because with the new technology anyone trying to get in would be detected and would be sent home or in other countries killed or imprisoned. //215//
Degradation Ceremony/ pg. 84: A term coined by Harold Garfinkel to refer to a ritual whose goal is to remake someone’s self by stripping away that individual’s self-identity and stamping a new identity in its

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