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| a shared cultural heritage |
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| a person or category of people, typically with little power whom other people unfairly blame for their own troubles |
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| unequal treatment of various categories of people |
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| institutional prejudice and discrimination |
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| bias built into the operaion of society's institutions |
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| a state in which people of all races and ethnicities are distinct but have equal social standing |
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| to describe the process by which minorities gradually adopt patterns of the dominant culture |
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| biological reproduction by partners of different racial categories |
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| physicial and social separation of categories of people/ |
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| a socially constructed category of people who share biologically transmitted traits that members of a society consider important |
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| a productive system based on service work and high technology |
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| primary sector of the economy |
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| part of the economy that draws raw materials from the natural environment |
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| is the part of the economy that transforms raw materials into manufactured goods |
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| the part of the economy that involves services rather than goods |
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| an economic system in which natural resources and the means of producing goods and services are collectively owned |
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| an economic and political system in which companies are privately owned but cooperate closely with the government |
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| routinization of charisma |
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| the transformation of charismatic authority into some combination of traditional and bureacratic authority |
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| a political system that denies the people participation in government |
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| a highly centralized political system that extensively regulates people's lives |
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| a system of government agencies and programs that provides benefits to the population |
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| an analysis of politics that sees power as spread among many competing interest groups |
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| based on social conflit theory, is an analysis of politics that sees power as concentrated among the rich |
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| marxist political-economy model |
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| an analysis that explains politics in terms of the operation of a societies economic system |
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| the overthrow of one political system in order to establish another |
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| military industrial complex |
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| the close association of the federal government, the military, and defense industries |
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| a lack of the reading and writing skills needed for everyday living |
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| the study of how health and disease are distruted throughout a society's population |
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| assisting in the death of a person suffering from an incurable disease |
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| a medical care system in which the government owns and operates most medical facilities and employs most physicians |
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