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| Social category of people who share a common culture, such as a common language or dialect |
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| Social category that we treat as distinct on the basis of certain characteristics, some biological, that have been assigned social importance in the society |
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| Negative evaluation of a social group and individuals within that group based on conceptions |
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| Grouping of people largely minority poor people who live at the absolute bottom of the social ladder in urban areas |
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| Programs in education & job hiring that recruit minorities over a wide range but do not use rigid quotes but may consider race as a factor |
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| When a minority becomes socially economically culturally absorbed within the dominate society |
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| Men and women learn the expectations associated with their sex |
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| The fear & hatred of homosexuality |
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| The idea that women & men have different earnings |
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| Segregation ... The distribution of men & men in different jobs in the labor force. |
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| The institutionslization of heterosexuality as the only socially legitimate sexual orientation |
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| IdeoloGy that defines women as different from inferior to men |
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| Perception & treatment of a racial or ethnic group or member of that group as intellectually socially & culturally |
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| Group of people born during the same time period |
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| Average number of years individuals & the group can expect to live |
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| The link feminist argue exists between sexuality and power & between sexuality and race, class, and gender oppression |
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| A social movement in the early twentieth century that sought to apply scientific principles of genetic selection to improve the offspring of the human race |
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| Compulsory heterosexuality |
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| The assumption that women and men ate innately attracted to each other emotionally and sexually and that heterosexuality is normal and universal |
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| The institutionslization of heterosexuality as the only socially legitimate sexual orientation. |
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| A facility that provides short periods of stay for a terminally I'll person in a homelike setting for either direct care or respite. |
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| The marriage practice of a sexually exclusive marriage with one spouse at a time |
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