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| interchurch, not pertaining to any particular faith |
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| refraining from sexual behavior |
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| an effort to find universality among all faiths |
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| organized massacre (in Russia, the pogrom following the assassination of Alexander II prompted massive migration of Jews) |
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| excluding a person or persons from social privileges and interaction |
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| men having more than one wife |
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| an Amish social-control practice of complete avoidance, including even eye contact |
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| people who set about to carry out an enterprise |
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| a shared belief system incorporating all religious elements into a sanctification and celebration of the American way of life |
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| an ideology that one gender is superior to the other |
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| when descent and inheritance are traced through the female side of the family |
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| societies in which married couples reside with or near the wife's family |
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| anticipated behaviors because of one's gender, culturally-influenced |
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| culturally defined need to be "feminine" that prevents many women from doing things that would help them achieve success and self-realization |
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| the second job of working women, referring to the unfair distribution of domestic duties |
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| a real but unseen discriminatory policy among companies that limits the upward mobility of women, keeping them out of top management positions, high-profile transfers and key assignments |
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| allowing workers to set, within limits, their own working hours |
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| term referring to female-headed households living in poverty |
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| irrational fear of gay people |
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| a sample of a population in which each member has an equal chance of being selected |
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| selection of individuals based on ease of access |
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| intergroup contact hypothesis |
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| a perspective that holds attitudes and behaviors in social interactions depend on the comparative status and affective ties of the participants |
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| any physical or mental impairment that substantially limits one or more major life activities |
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| concept that emphasizes the individual's physical situation and not societal elements that may be affecting it |
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| the way in which society adapts to accomodate people with disabilities |
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| a unit of parents and children living apart from other relatives |
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| the elderly's adult children still providing for their own dependent children and also for aging parents |
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| manifestation of prejudice, aversion, or even hatred toward the old |
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| difference between assets and liabilities of a person or household |
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| immigrants under 10 years old when they arrive and easily become acculturated through school, media, and social interactions |
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| intergenerational mobility |
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| change in social status within a family from one generation to the next |
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| second generation perceives its ethnicity as a disadvantage to being accepted in U.S. society |
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| those who have a U.S. born-parent and a foreign-born parent |
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| sustained ties of persons, networks, and organizations across national borders that result from current international migration patterns and refugee flows |
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| actual or virtual resources available to an individual or group through social relationships, networks, and institutions |
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| hypothesis suggesting a variety of outcomes among, and within contemporary immigrant streams |
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| teaching children English competence as one would teach English speakers another language |
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| a dual approach under which foreign-lang students learn English and native-born students develop foreign-lang competence |
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| including material in the school curriculum that related the contributions of non-European peoples to US History |
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