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affirmative action |
Programs that re designed to counter the effects of institutional discrimination and the legacy of minority group inequality |
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de jure segregation/Jim Crow System |
rigid competitive race relations that followed Reconstruction in the South. The system lasted from the 1880s-1960s and was characterized by laws mandating racial separation and inequality. |
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deindustrialization |
the shift from a manufacturing economy to a service-oriented information-processing economy |
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fluid competitive system |
group relations in which minority group members are freer to compete for jobs and other scarce resources. associated with advanced deindustralization |
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glass ceiling |
discriminatory practices that limit opportunities for women to rise to higher levels in their careers, qualify for promotions, and earn higher salaries. |
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Modern institutional discrimination |
a more subtle form of institutional discrimination that is often unintentional and unconscious |
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past-in-present institutional discrimination |
patterns of inequality or unequal treatment in the present that are caused by some pattern of discrimination in the past |
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primary labor market |
the segment of the labor market that encompasses better paying, higher status more secure jobs, usually in large bureaucracies |
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reconstruction |
the period of southern race relations following the civil war. 1865-1880's and witnessed many racial reforms, all of which were revered during the de jure segregation/ jim crow |
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rigid competitive group system |
a system of group relations in which the dominant group seeks to exclude minority groups or limit their ability to compete for scarce resources such as jobs |
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secondary labor market |
the segment of the labor market that includes low paying low skilled insecure jobs |
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sharecropping |
a farming system during de jure segregation in the south. the sharecropper (tenant, usually black) worked the land which was owned by someone else (usually white) in return for a share of the profits at harvest time. the landowner supplied a place to live and credit for food and clothing |
