Soc 3

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chance

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those things not subject to human will, choice or efort

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choice

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the act of choosing from a wide range of possible behaviors or appearances

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context

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the larger historical circumstances and social forces that bring people together

the larger social setting in which racial and ethnic cate gories are recognized constructed an challenged

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minority groups

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subgroups within a society that can be distinguisehed from members of the dominant group by identifying characteristics

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assimilation

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a process where racial and ethnic distictions between groups disappear

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involuntary minority

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group that was forced into a society by slavery conquest or colonization

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melting pot assimilation

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a process of cultural blending in which the group involved accept many new behaviors and values from one another

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ideology

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a set of beliefs that are not challengedor subjected to scrutiny by the people who hold them

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stereotypes

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exxagerated and inaccurate generalizations about members of an outgroup

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discrimination

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intentional or unintentional enequal treatment of individuals or groups on the basis of attribute unrelated to merit ability or past performance

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selective perception

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the process by which prejudiced person notice only those things that fit their sterotypes about an outgroup

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indivual discrimination

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any overt action by an individual that depreciates someone from the outgroup denies outgroup members opprotunities to participate or does violence to lives and property

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stigma

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an attribute defined as deeply discrediting because it overshadows all other attributes that a person might posses

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mixed contacts

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stigmatized normals are in the same social situation such as convo or not forced gathering

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primary sex charactreistics

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the anatomical traits essential to reproduction

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secondary sex chara.

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not essential to reproduction (voice, body hair breast developement) result from male and female sex characteristics

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intersexed

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having male and female characteristics

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transexuals

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have primary sex characteristics dont match the sex the percive to be or think they are

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gender

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a social distinction based on culturally concieved and learned ideas about the appropriate appearance behavior and mental emotional characteristcis for males and females

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masulinity

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physical behavioral mental and emotional traits believed to be male

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feminity

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physical behvioral mental emotional traits elieved to be of a women

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gender polarization

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organization of life around male-female distinction so that peoples sex is conected to everything like dress code social rules way of expressing emotion and sexualy desire