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16 Cards in this Set
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Several differences that affect the way we interact with other people |
sex and gender sexual orientation race and ethnicity age social class |
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a person's sex is determined by |
biology |
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Gender differences |
reflect learned behavior that is culturally associated with being a man or a woman |
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Gender Role definitions are |
flexible |
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Gender |
socially learned and reinforced characteristics that include one's biological sex and psychological characteristics |
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Men tend to talk |
in order to accomplish something or to complete a task |
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Women more likely use conversation to |
establish and maintain relationships |
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Race |
genetically transmitted physical characteristics of a group of people |
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Ethnicity |
social classification based on nationality, religion, language, and ancestral heritage, shared by a group of people who also share a common geographical origin |
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Cues we use to identify class distinctions |
way of life family job money education |
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Principles that describe how social classes emerge from society |
1. Virtually every organization or group develops a hierarchy that makes status distinctions 2 We are more likely to interact with people from our own social class 3. People who interact with each other over time tend to communicate in similar ways 4. members of a social class develop ways of communicating class differences to others by using visible symbols of social class 5. It is possible to change one's social class |
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Culture |
learned system of knowledge, behavior, attitudes, beliefs, values, and norms shared by a group of people |
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Worldview |
individual perceptions or perceptions by a culture or group of people about key beliefs and issues |
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Co-culture |
a distinct culture within a larger culture |
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Enculturation |
the process of transmitting a group's culture from one generation to the next |
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Six dimensions of culture |
individualism VS collectivism emphasis on the surrounding context VS little emphasis on context masculine values VS feminine values degree of tolerance for uncertainty approaches to power short or long term approaches to time |
