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| An act of force perceived by the powerful as threatening to the status quo. |
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| Deviant behavior that is a consequence of the self-fulfilling prophecy of a negative label |
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| The percentage of criminals that are arrested or convicted of new crimes after their punishment has ended |
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| Beliefs, meanings, and placement that value men over women and that institutionalize male control of socially valued resources |
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| Forms of social organization in which men are dominant over women |
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| Compulsory Heterosexuality |
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| A system of sexuality that imposes nagative sanctions on those who are homosexual or bisexual. |
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| Males and females differ because of socialization. The assumption is that males and females learn to be different. |
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| Gender Structure Approach |
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| Males and females differ because of factors external to them. (EX: parents, teachers, other adult figures) |
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| A way of organizing the social world based on sexual identity. |
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| Condition of capitalism in which male supremacy keeps women in subordinate roles at work and in the home. |
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| Differentiation ranking and rewarding of women's and men's roles |
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| Raising pay scales according to the work of the job instead of the personal characteristics of the workers |
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| The integration of traditional feminine an dmasculine characteristics. |
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| Sociohistorical process by which races are continually being shaped and transformed |
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| System of inequality in which race is the major criterion for rank and rewards. |
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| Culturally distinctive characteristics based on race, religion, or national origin. |
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| Group labeled as a "race" by the wider society and bound together by their common social and economic conditions, resulting in distinctive cultural and ethnic characteristics |
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| Explanations that blame the prejudice attitudes of majority members for the secondary status of minorities. |
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| Explanations that view the secondary status of minorities as the result of their own behaviors and cultural traits. |
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| Structural Discrimination Theories |
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| Explanations that focus on the institutionalized patterns of discrimination as the sources of the secondary status of minorities. |
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| The practice of targeting citizens for police encounters on the basis of race. |
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| An invisible barrier that limits women's upward occupational mobility. |
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| Pattern whereby women and men are situated in different jobs throughout the labor force. |
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| Institutional Discrimination |
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| When the social arrangements and accepted ways of doing things in society disadvantages minority groups. |
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| The doctrine advocation social, political, and all other rights of women equal to those of men. |
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| Pertaining to or characteristics of a man or men. |
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| A group of persons related by common descent or heredity. |
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| A term used to describe the rights allegedly granted to the male population in society on the basis of their biological sex. |
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| Refers to obvious or hidden disparities among individuals based on performance of gender. |
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| Refers to the learning of behavior and attitudes considered appropriate for a given sex |
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| A mark of disgrace or infamy; a stain or reproach, as on ones reputation |
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| Attitudes or behavior based on traditional stereotypes of sexual roles |
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| Acts of violence or abuse against a person living in your household |
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| The policies intended to promote access to education or employment aimed at a historically non-dominant group. |
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| The preservation of different cultures or culture identities within a unified society, as a state or nation. |
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| Women continue to make significantly less money then men. Earning discrimination is greater for women of color. (76 cents per Dollar for a man) |
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