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| Happens when majority group and minority group combine to form a new group; a unique cultural-racial group unlike any of the initial groups |
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| Process through which person forsakes his or her cultural tradition to become part of a different culture |
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| Foreign power maintains political, social, economic, and cultural domination over a people for an extended period of time |
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| Use of the principle of race neutrality to defend racially unequal status quo |
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| Interracial contact between people of equal status in cooperative circumstances will cause them to become less prejudiced and to abandon old stereotypes |
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| Denial of opportunities and equal rights to individuals and groups based on some type of arbitrary bias |
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| Group set apart from others primarily because of its national origin or distinctive cultural patterns |
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| Deliberate, systematic killing of an entire people or nation |
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| invisible barrier that blocks the promotion of a qualified individual in a work environment because of the individual's gender, race or ethnicity |
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| Worldwide integration of government policies, cultures, social movements, and financial markets through trade and exchange of ideas |
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| Process by which peripheral nations move from traditional institutions to those characteristic of more developed societies |
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| Multinational corporaation |
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| Commercial organizations headquartered in one country but doing business throughout the world |
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| continuing dependence of former colonies on foreign countries |
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| Based on mutual respect among various groups in a society for one another's cultures |
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| Arbitrary action initiated by an authority based on race, ethnicity, or national origin rather than one person's behavior |
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| Belief that one race is supreme and others are innately inferior |
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| Physical separation of two groups of people in terms of residence |
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| Situation where members of society have different amounts of wealth, prestige, or power |
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| Movement of individuals or groups from one position in a society's stratification system to another |
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| Movement within same range of prestige |
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| Movement from one position to another of a different rank |
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| Intergenerational mobility |
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| changes in the social position of children relative to their parents |
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| Intergenerational mobility |
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| Social position changes within person's adult life |
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| Unreliable generalizations about all members of a group that do not recognize individual differences with the group |
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| a structured ranking of entire groups of people that perpetuates unequal economic rewards and power in society |
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| rights or immunities granted to people as a benefit or favor simply because they are white |
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