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Bourgeoisie
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Marx's term for capitalists, those who own the means of production
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Caste system
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A form of social stratification in which people's statuses are determined by birth and are lifelong
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Class consciousness
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Marx's term for awareness of a common identity based on ones position in the means of production
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Class sustem
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A form of social stratification based primarily on the possession of money or material items
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Colonialism
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The process by which one nation takes over another nation, usually for the purpose of exploiting it's labor and natural resources
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Culture of
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The assumption that the values and behaviors of the poor make them fundamentally different from other people, that these factors are largely responsible for their poverty, and that parents perpetuate poverty across generations by passing these characteristics to their children
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Divine right of jungs
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The idea that the kings authority comes directly from god, in an interesting gender bender, applies to queens
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Endogamy
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The practice of marrying within ones own group
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False class consciousness
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Marx's term to refer to workers identifying with the interests or capitalists
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Globalization of capitalism
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Capitalism (investing to make profits within a rational system) becoming the globes dominant economic system
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Ideology
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Beliefs about the way things ought to be that justify social arrangements
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Means of productin
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The tools, factories, land and investment capital used to produce wealth
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Meritocracy
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A form of social stratification in which all positions are awarded on the basis of merit
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Multinational corporstions
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Companies that operate across national boundaries, also called transnational corporations
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Neocolonialism
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The economic and political dominance of the least industrialized nations by the most industrialized nations
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Proletariat
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Marx's term for the exploited class, the mass of workers who do not own the means of production
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Slavery
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A form of social stratification in which some people own other people
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Social mobility
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Movement up or down the social class ladder
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Social stratification
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The division of large numbers of people into layers according to their relative property, power, and prestige, applies to both nations and to people within a nation, society or
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World system theory
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Economic and political connections that tie the worlds countries together
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Contradictory class loacations
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Erik wrights term for position in the class structure that generates contradictory interests
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Contradictory class loacations
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Erik wrights term for position in the class structure that generates contradictory interests
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Culture of poverty
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The assumption that the values and behaviors of the poor make them fundamentally different from other people, that these factors are largely responsible for their poverty and that parents perpetuate poverty across generations by passing these characteristics to their children
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Contradictory class loacations
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Erik wrights term for position in the class structure that generates contradictory interests
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Culture of poverty
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The assumption that the values and behaviors of the poor make them fundamentally different from other people, that these factors are largely responsible for their poverty and that parents perpetuate poverty across generations by passing these characteristics to their children
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Downward social mobility
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Movement down the social class ladder
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Contradictory class loacations
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Erik wrights term for position in the class structure that generates contradictory interests
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Culture of poverty
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The assumption that the values and behaviors of the poor make them fundamentally different from other people, that these factors are largely responsible for their poverty and that parents perpetuate poverty across generations by passing these characteristics to their children
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Downward social mobility
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Movement down the social class ladder
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Exchange mobility
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About the same numbers of people moving up and down the social class ladder such that on balance the social class system shows little change
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Feminization of poverty
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Refers to most US poor families being headed by women
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Horatio Alger myth
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The belief that due to limitless possibilities anyone can
Get ahead if he or she tries Hard enough |
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Horatio Alger myth
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The belief that due to limitless possibilities anyone can
Get ahead if he or she tries Hard enough |
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Income
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Money received, usually from a job, business or assets
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Horatio Alger myth
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The belief that due to limitless possibilities anyone can
Get ahead if he or she tries Hard enough |
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Income
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Money received, usually from a job, business or assets
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Inter generational mobility
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The change that family members make in social class from one generation to the next
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Poverty line
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The official measure of poverty, calculated to include incomes that are less than three times a low cost food budget
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Power
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The ability to carry out your will, even other the resistance of others
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Power elite
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C. Wright mills term for the top people in US corporation, military and politics who make the nations major decisions
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Prestige
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Respect or regard
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Prestige
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Respect or regard
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Property
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Material possessions such as animals, bank accounts, bonds, buildings , businesses, cars, furniture, land and stocks
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Social class
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According to weber, a large group of people who rank close to one another in property (wealth), power, and prestige, according to Marx, one of two groups, capitalists who own the means of production or workers who sell their labor
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Social class
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According to weber, a large group of people who rank close to one another in property (wealth), power, and prestige, according to Marx, one of two groups, capitalists who own the means of production or workers who sell their labor
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Social mobility
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Movement up or down the social class ladder
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Status
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The position that someone occupies in a social group
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Status consistency
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Ranking high or low on all three dimensions of social class
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Status consistency
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Ranking high or low on all three dimensions of social class
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Social inconsistency
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Ranking high on some dimensions of social class and low on others
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Status consistency
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Ranking high or low on all three dimensions of social class
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Social inconsistency
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Ranking high on some dimensions of social class and low on others
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Structural mobility
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Movement up or down the social class ladder that is due to changes in the structure of society, not to individual efforts
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Underclass
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A group of people for whom poverty persists year after year and across generations
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Wealth
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The total value of everything someone owns, minus the debts
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Assimilarion
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The process of being absorbed into the mainstream culture
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Assimilarion
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The process of being absorbed into the mainstream culture
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Authoritarian personluty
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Theodore Adorno's term for people who are highly prejudiced and also rank high on scales of conformity, intolerance, insecurity, respect for authority, and submissiveness to superiors
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Compaetmentalize
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To separate acts from feelings or attitudes
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Compaetmentalize
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To separate acts from feelings or attitudes
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Discrimination
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An act of unfair treatment directed against an individual or a group
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Compaetmentalize
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To separate acts from feelings or attitudes
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Discrimination
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An act of unfair treatment directed against an individual or a group
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Dominant group
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The group with the most power, greatest privileges and highest social status
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Compaetmentalize
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To separate acts from feelings or attitudes
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Discrimination
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An act of unfair treatment directed against an individual or a group
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Dominant group
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The group with the most power, greatest privileges and highest social status
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Ethnicity (and ethnic)
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Having distinctive cultural characteristics
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Ethnic work
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Activities designed to discover, enhance, or maintain ethnic and racial identity
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Ethnic work
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Activities designed to discover, enhance, or maintain ethnic and racial identity
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Genocide
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The systematic annihilation or attempted annihilation of a people because of their presumed race or ethnicity
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Ethnic work
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Activities designed to discover, enhance, or maintain ethnic and racial identity
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Genocide
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The systematic annihilation or attempted annihilation of a people because of their presumed race or ethnicity
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Individual discrimination
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The negative treatment of one person by another on the basis of that persons perceived characteristics
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Ethnic work
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Activities designed to discover, enhance, or maintain ethnic and racial identity
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Genocide
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The systematic annihilation or attempted annihilation of a people because of their presumed race or ethnicity
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Individual discrimination
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The negative treatment of one person by another on the basis of that persons perceived characteristics
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Institutional discrimination
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Negative treatment of a minority group that is built into a society's institutions, also called systematic discrimination
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Internal colonialism
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The policy of economically exploiting minority groups
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Minority groip
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People who are singled out for unequal treatment and who regard themselves as objects of collective discrimination
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Multiculturalism
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A philosophy or social policy that permits or encourages ethnic differences
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Pan-Indianism
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A movement that focuses on common elements in the culture of native Americanism order to develop a cross tribal group identity and to
Work toward the welfare of all native Americans |
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Pan-Indianism
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A movement that focuses on common elements in the culture of native Americanism order to develop a cross tribal group identity and to
Work toward the welfare of all native Americans |
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Pluralism
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The diffusion of power among many internet groups that prevents any single group from gaining control of the government
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Population trandfer
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The forces relocation of a minority group
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Prejudice
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An attitude or prejudging usually in a negative way
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Race
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A group whose inherited physical characteristics distinguish it from
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Race
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A group whose inherited physical characteristics distinguish it from
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Racism
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Prejudice and discrimination on the basis of race
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Race
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A group whose inherited physical characteristics distinguish it from
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Racism
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Prejudice and discrimination on the basis of race
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Reserve labor force
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The unemployed, unemployed workers are thought of as
Being in reserve, capitalists Take them out of Reserve during times of high production and then lay them off when no longer needed |
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Rising expectations
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The sense that better conditions are soon to
Follow, which, if unfulfilled, increases frustration |
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Rising expectations
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The sense that better conditions are soon to
Follow, which, if unfulfilled, increases frustration |
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Scapegoat
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An individual or group unfairly blamed for someone else's troubles
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Segregation
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The policy of keeping racial-ethnic groups apart
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Selective perception
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Seeing certain features of an object or situation, but remaining blind to others
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Split labor market
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Workers split along racial, ethnic, gender, age, or any other lines, this split is exploited by owners to weaken the bargaining power of workers
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Split labor market
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Workers split along racial, ethnic, gender, age, or any other lines, this split is exploited by owners to weaken the bargaining power of workers
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White ethnics
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White immigrants to the US whose cultures differ from that of WASPs
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