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| refers to the meaning a culture attaches to being female or male |
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| a socially constructed category of people who share biologically transmitted traits that members of a socity consider important |
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| Female Genital Mutilation |
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| the surgical removal of the clitoris |
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| any category of people distinguished by physical or cultural difference that a society sets apart and subordinates |
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| Bogardus social distance scale |
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| indicates how closely they were willing to interact with people in thirty racial and ethnic categories |
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| refers to socially constructed categories based on cultural traits a society defines as important |
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| a rigid and unfair generalization about a category of people. |
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| a simplified description applied to every person in some category |
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| the belief that one racial category is innately superior or inferior to another |
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| a person or category of people, typically with little power, whom people unfairly blame for their own troubles |
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| Authoritarian Personality |
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| theory claims that prejudice is a personality trait of certain individuals, especially those with little education and those raised by cold demanding parents |
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| theory claims that prejudice is a tool used by powerful people to divide and control the population |
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| claims that prejudice is rooted in culure, we learn to feel greater social distance from some categories of people. |
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| Discrimination individual |
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| refers to actions by which a person treats various categories of people unequally |
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| Discrimination institutional |
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| are biases built into the operation of society's institutions, including schools, hospitals, the police, and the workplace. |
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| any category of people distinguished by physical or cultural difference that a society sets apart and subordinates |
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| means that racial and ethnic categories, although distinct, have roughly equal social standing. |
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| is a process by which minorities gradually adopt the patterns of the dominant culture |
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| De jure segregation by law |
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| segregation describes settings that contain only people of one category. |
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| means having little social contact with people beyond the local community |
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| the systematic killing of one category of people by another |
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| General racial makeup of the United States (no need to memorize statistics) |
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| Trends and changes in U.S. racial demographics |
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| the average age of the U.S. population is steadily going up. 1900 age 23, 2040, age 40 |
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| General changes in age demographics and reasons for these changes |
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| birth rates falling life expectancy rising |
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| health becomes more fragile, wealthy less than poorer. does not result in overall loss of intelligence or major changes in personality. |
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| how elderly people are regarded by socity is a matter of culture. |
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| Types of socieites and impact on age |
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hunting gathering-both very yong and very old contribute less
agrarian-elders are typically the most privleged and respected members of socity a patter known as gerontocracy
industirial and post- social standing of the elderly is low because the fast pace of social change is dominated by the young |
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| the unequal distribution of wealth, power, and privilege among people at different stages of the life course. |
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| caused by the death of friends or a spouse, physical disability, or retirement from ones job |
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| persons risk rises after midlife, some retired people have to return to work. |
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| Stratification in work, family life, education, politics |
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| Caregiving patterns between cultures |
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| most caregiving for the elderly is performed by family memebers mostly women, |
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| prejudice and discrimination against older people |
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| suggests that socity helps the elderly disengage from positions of social responsiblity before the onset of disability or death. |
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| claims that a high level of activity increases peoples personal satisfaction in old age |
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| a form of social organization in which females dominate males |
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| the belief that one sex is innately superior to the other |
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| a form of social organization in which males dominate females |
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| children quickly learn that their society considers females and males different kinds of people, by about age three, they begin to think of themselves in these terms |
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| support of social equality for women and men in opposiion to patriarchy and sexism |
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