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process of taking on the characteristics of another culture, resulting in new and blended patterns. The term is typically used to refer to a process that affects a smaller culture that is exposed to a larger dominant culture, but it can occur in both ways
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acculturation
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to absorb into the cultural tradition of a population or group
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assimilation
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level of status within society (power, access to, and control of resources)
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class
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the ways each society organizes and defines itself
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culture
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behavior which is unusual or different from most people
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deviant
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negative attitudes and stereotypes which influence people's judgments about others
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discrimination
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subculture within a larger culture
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ethnic group
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one's relationhip to (or membership in) races or large groups of poeple classed according to common traits and customs
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ethnicity
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a "primary group" or system, whose core functions are to provide intimacy, affection, and protection for group members
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family
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biological differences as they are understood and interpreted socioculturally
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gender
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a person's sense about which gender he or she is
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gender identity
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behavioral expectations that we associate with gender in a given society and that change over the life cycle
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gender role
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shared standards of acceptable and unacceptable behavior
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norms
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a group to which a person belongs outside their family and which typically includes persons similar in age or interest
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peer group
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negative attitudes and stereotypes which influence people's judgments about others and makes it much more difficult to have one's work evaulated fairly
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prejudice
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a special kind of peer group that we use to help define who we are or wish to be
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reference group
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treatment to assist an individual in recovering their previous self, skills, and performance
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rehabilitation
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an individual who is influential in a person's life that one looks up to, admires, and wants to be like
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role model
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that which arouses someone sexually
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sexual object choice
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process of teaching and learning by which the culture provides its rules about how to live, how to relate to other people, and the rules of right and wrong
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socialization
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view of a situation shaped by social and cultural factors
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sociocultural perspective
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widely shared sets of expectations about how someone in a particular role or with particular characteristics is likely to behave
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stereotypes
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times of major life change
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transitions
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