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| African American studies scholar Molefi Kete Asante, called for this to emphasize the customs of African American cultures and how they have pervaded the history, culture, and behavior of Blacks in the United States and around the world. Counters Eurocentrism and works toward a multiculturalist or pluralist orientation in which no viewpoint is suppressed. |
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| a subordinate group whose members have significantly less control or power over their own lives than do the members of a dominant or majority group. |
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| This term is reserved for minorities and the corresponding majorities that are socially set apart because of obvious physical differences. |
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| A group set apart from others because of its national origin or distinctive cultural patterns. |
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| The mistaken notion of a genetically isolated human group. |
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| Intelligence Quotient (IQ) |
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| The ratio of a person's mental age (as computed by an IQ test) to his or her chronological age, multiplied by 100. |
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| A doctrine that one race is superior. |
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| A sociohistorical process by which racial categories are created, inhibited, transformed, and destroyed. (Example- With the creation of reservations for Native Americans in the late 1800s, distinctive tribes were all pushed together into one group.) |
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| The systematic study of social behavior and human groups. |
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| A structured ranking of entire groups of people that perpetuates unequal rewards and power in a society. |
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| As defined by Max Weber, people who share similar levels of wealth. |
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| Functionalist Perspective |
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| A sociological approach emphasizing how parts of a society are structured to maintain its stability. |
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| An element of society that may disrupt a social system or decrease its stability. |
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| A sociological approach that assumes that the social structure is best understood in terms of conflict or tension between competing groups. |
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| Portraying the problems of racial and ethnic minorities as their fault rather than recognizing society's responsibilities. |
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| A sociological approach introduced by Howard Becker that attempts to explain why certain people are viewed as deviants and others engaging in the same behavior are not. |
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| Unreliable, exaggerated generalizations about all members of a group that do not take individual differences into account. |
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| The tendency to respond to and act on the basis of stereotypes, a predisposition that can lead one to validate false definitions. |
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| A general term that describes any transfer of population. |
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| leaving a country to settle in another. |
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| Coming into a new country as a permanent resident. |
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| Worldwide integration of government policies, cultures, social movements, and financial markets through trade, movements of people, and the exchange of ideas. |
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| A foreign power's maintenance of political, social, economic, and cultural dominance over people for an extended period. |
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| A view of the global economic system as divided between nations that control wealth and those that provide natural resources and labor. |
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| The treatment of subordinate peoples as colonial subjects by those in power. |
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| The deliberate, systematic killing of an entire people or nation. |
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| Forced deportation of people, accompanied by systematic violence. |
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| The physical separation of two groups, often imposed on a subordinate group by the dominant group. |
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| The physical separation of racial and ethnic groups reappearing after a period of relative integration. |
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| A minority and a majority group combining to form a new group. |
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| The process by which a dominant group and a subordinate group combine through intermarriage to form a new group. |
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| Diverse racial or ethnic groups or both, forming a new creation, a new cultural entity. |
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| The process by which a subordinate individual or group takes on the characteristics of the dominant group. |
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| Mutual respect between the various groups in a society for one another's cultures, allowing minorities to express their own culture without experiencing prejudice or hostility. |
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| The development of solidarity between ethnic subgroups, as reflected in the terms Hispanic or Asian American. |
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| The status of being between two cultures at the same time, such as the status of Jewish immigrants in the United States. |
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