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28 Cards in this Set
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Social stratification |
A societys ranking of people based on their access to valued resource such as wealth power and prestige |
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Social class |
People who have a similar standing of rank in a society based on wealth education power prestige and other valued resources |
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Wealth |
Economic Assets that a person or family owns |
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Power |
The ability to influence or control the behavior of others despite opposition |
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Prestige |
Respect recognition or regard attached to social positions |
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Charisma |
compelling attractiveness or charm that can inspire devotion in others. |
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Life changes |
The extent to which people have positive experiences and cancer cure the good things in life because they have economic resources |
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Relative property |
Not having enough money to maintain and average standing of living |
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Absolute property |
Not having enough money to afford the basic necessities of life |
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Feminization of poverty |
The disproportionate number of the poor who are women |
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Sex |
The biological characteristics with which we are born |
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Gender |
Learning attitudes and behaviors that characterize women and men |
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Sexism |
Attitude that discriminates against one sex based on the scene superiority of the other sex |
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Gender stratification |
People's on equal access to world power status prestige and other valued resources because of their sex |
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Gender pay gap |
The over all income difference between women and men in the workplace |
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Sexual harassment |
Any unwanted sexual advance request for sexual favors or other conduct of sexual nature than make that person uncomfortable in interferes with her or his work |
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Sexual orientation |
Sexual orientationA preference for sexual partners of the same sex of the opposite sex of both sexes or neither sexes |
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Homophobia |
A fear and hatred of lesbians And gays |
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Ethnic group |
People who identify with a common national or gin or cultural heritage |
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Minority |
A group of people who may be treated differently and unequally because of their physical culture or other characteristics |
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Contact Hypothesis |
Post it's that the more people get to know members of minority groups personally the less likely they are to be prejudice against that group |
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Genocide |
The systematic effort to kill all members of a particular ethnic religious political racial Or national group |
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Assimilation |
Conforming to the dominant group's culture adopting its language and values and intermarrying with that group |
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Segregation |
The physical and social separation of dominant and minority groups |
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Prejudice |
An attitude that prejuges people usually in a negative way |
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Discrimination |
Behavior that treats people unequally or unfairly because of the group membership |
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Ethnocentrism |
The belief that one's own culture societee or group is inherently superior to others |
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Functionalism perspective of race and Ethnicity |
Those who criticize immigrants for not becoming Americanized quickly enough |
