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identify how society upholds heterosexuality and a marital union between a man and a woman as ideal normative behavior. |
Functionalist perspective |
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Heterosexual privilege |
(Feminist and conflict) set of privileges or advantages granted to some people because of their heterosexuality. |
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The reaffirmation of heterosexuality as the moral standard is the basis of the culture wars |
Feminist and conflict perspective |
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Race |
group or population sharing a set of genetic characteristics and physical features • Social scientists reject the biological notions of race, instead favoring an approach that treats race as a social construct. |
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Ethnic groups |
A group of people who are set off to some degree from other groups by displaying a unique set of cultural traits, such as their language, religion, or diet |
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Assimilation |
(Functionalist) a process where minority group members become part of the dominant group, losing their original group identity. |
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Focuses on how the dynamics of racial and ethnic relations divide groups while maintaining a dominant group. |
Conflict perspective |
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We learn about racial and ethnic categories through our social interaction. |
Interactionist perspective |
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De facto segregation |
a subtler process of segregation that is the result of other processes, such as housing segregation rather than because of an official policy. |
