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| The theory that as time progresses, people would be united into one common identity and would lose their original ethnic identity. |
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A structed system of inequality based on differences between people.
*One group always has more access to Wealth, Power, and Prestige. |
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1. Common decent/ancestry
2. Common culture
3. Sense of peoplehood |
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| Weber's definition of ethnicity |
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| Real or Assumed blood ties |
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| Observable physical differences. |
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| The fundamental power tf ethnic and racial group identities : Physical features, name, history, nationality, first language, born religion, born culture, and geography of birthplace all yield to elements that carry a distinctive power by virtue of their primacy. |
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| Identities survive because they're products of the circumstances of the moment. |
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| The process by with a racial or ethnic group gradually loses its distinctiveness and separateness and becomes absorbed into the culture and structure of the host society. They all "melt down" to the general "American" type. |
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| The process by with a racial or ethnic group gradually loses its distinctiveness and separateness and becomes absorbed into the culture and structure of the host society. They all "melt down" to the general "American" type. |
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| Cultural Assimilation/Acculturation |
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| Assimilation to the language, food, style of dress. The subordinate group loses its cultural aspects and takes on dominant cultural traits. |
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| Primary Structural Assimilation |
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| Assimilating and interacting in close networks with groups different than you: EX: Intermarriage. |
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| Secondary Structural Assimilation |
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| The subordinate group's abiity to have equal access to power and privilege in education, jobs, politics, healthcare, baking. |
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| Psychological Assimilation |
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| The subordinate group's change in self-identity. How much do they feel a part of the larger society and how much do they feel a part of their ethnic group? If they have allegiance more to the dominant group then psychological assimilation has occured. |
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| The extent to which the assimilation group looks different. The more different you look, the more difficult it will be and the longer it will take to assimilate, especially with secondary structural assimilation. |
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| Inferior position in society, nothing to do with numerical size, race first and foremost, ethnicity second |
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