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Consists of people and comraderie
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Community
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Consists of beliefs, values, traditions, and lifestyle
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Culture
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What are beliefs and values of the gay culture?
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Appreciation of aesthetics (beauty) and freedom of sexual expression
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What are traditions of gay culture?
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Discos, dancing, softball, pride parade, and rite of passage
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What are symbols of the gay culture?
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Rainbow, pink triangle
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Who are some heroes of the gay culture?
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Matt Shepard
Brandon Teena |
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What are some languages of the gay culture?
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Slang, body language, name calling, and institutions
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What is a cultural norm?
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A rule serving as a guideline for social behavior
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What is Assimilation?
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Being different when you join a society but then give up ur uniqueness (language,religion,customs)and merge with the crowd. this can happen voluntarily or be forced upon someone/group.
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What is acculturation?
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When a minority group merges with the dominant group as far as language, values and society norms.
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What is cultural pluralism?
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When different identities and cultures live together but neither ever gives up their distinct values to merge with the other
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What is a subculture?
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Groups of people that although they share some common norms with the dominant group in their society also have distinct values that they inherited from their own cultural traditions. Or when a group does things to dissassociate themselves from the dominant group
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What is socialization?
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A life-long process in which people learn about their culture
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What is counter-culture?
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When one consciously challenges or goes against cultural norms
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What is a folkway?
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Rules of behavior that if broken usually go unpunished. Example:not bringing a gift to a b-day party
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What are mores?
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rules of behavior that weigh more than folkways and going against them results in serious consequences.
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What is a law?
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codes of behavior written down as legal statutes and have severe consequences if broken
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What are symbols?
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Something that stands for something else
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What is language?
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symbolic means which people transmit the elements of their culture
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What are values?
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beliefs shared by people within a society in terms of what is consideredgood and bad, right and werong, desirable and undesirable
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What are material items?
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artwork,artifacts,machinesand utensils of a group.differences between social classes, attitudes, religion, and use of leisure time
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What is an essentialist?
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Someone who believes that masculinity and femininity is inbred and inborn
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What is a constructivist?
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Someone who believes that gender differences are social (they're a performance)rather than biological
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What is differential treatment?
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the fact that from bith, males and females are treated differently
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What is identification with role models?
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The effect of identifying w/pple of the same sex on masculinity and femininity
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What is sex=biology?
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When sex is determined by physical attributes such as reproductive anatomy, body hair, voice...etc
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What is sex=activity?
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Sex based on hehavior and expression of love and sexual feelings toward one another
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What is Gender?
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being a "man" or "woman"
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What is gender attribution?
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assigning a gender to someone based on physical attributes
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What is assigned Gender?
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gender based on certain body as male and certain bodies as female
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What is gender identity?
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Personal psychology. one's own internal sense of being male, female or neither.
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What are gender roles?
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all the things you're expected to do based on your assigned gender
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What is affectional/sexual orientation?
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sexuality
or people you form romantic attachments and partnerships and with whom you express yourself sexually |
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What is Gender expression?
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what we do to communicate our gender to others. ex: dress,behavior,vocal quality
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What is transgender?
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those who cross the lines of gender expression
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What is a transexual?
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Someone who have surgically changed their bodies to match their gender identity
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What is intersexual?
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being born with partial or full physical characteristics of both sexes
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What is to identify?
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One's internal self opposed to what people observe or assume
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What is sexual/affectional orientation?
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an emotional, romantic or sexual affectional attraction toward another person.
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Define Gay
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sexual/affectional orientation toward a person of the same sex
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Define lesbian
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A woman whose sexual/affectional orientation is toward another woman
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Define bisexual
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a person whose sexual/affectinal orientation is toward pple of both sexes
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Define LGBT or GLBT
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(Lesbian/gay/bisexual/transgender) more diversity than the term "gay"
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define queer
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derogatory term for gay men and lesbians
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Define homophobia
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fear of sexual attraction to one's own sex
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Define internalize homophobia
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homophobic attitudes on the part of pple in the lgbt community as a result of general homophobia exhibited by the dominant culture
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Define heterosexual
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sexual/affectional orientation toward members of the other sex
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Define "straight"
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common term for a homosexual individual
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Define heterosexism
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belief that heterosexuals are of higher values than lgbt individuals
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Define heterocentrism
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Belief that heterosexuality is the "rule" and every aspect of society should be made to support the needs of heterosexuals
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What is gay pride?
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parades and festivals and events that are designed to protray a positive sense of the lgbt community and political and social empowerment for these pple
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What is an ally?
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someone who is not part of the lgbt community but supports it
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What is meant by the term "come-out"?
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disclosing one's sexual/affectional orientation to tohers
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Define "closet"
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lgbt individuals who have not disclosed their sexual/affectional orientation to others
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What is meant by the term "ex-gay"
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movements or organization that believe that they can change one's sexual/affectional orientation through faith-based means or psychological treatment
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Homosexual vs. gay
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homosexual=mental disorder
lgbt pple prefer gay b/c it means community rather than clinic |
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Preference vs. orientation
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orientation=inbred
preference=superficial choice lgbt community prefers orientation |
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life vs. lifestyle
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lifestyle=superficial
life=makeing one's way in the world lgbt community prefers life |
