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| place in stratification system that is determined by birth |
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| the awareness that a class structure exists and the feeling of shared identification with ones own class |
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| the argument that poverty is a way of life and is passed from generation to generation |
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| system of stratification where ownership of property and the exercise of power is dominated by an elite or noble class |
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| the thought of subordinate classes internalizing the view of the dominant class |
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| growing proportion of the poor are women and children |
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| a belief system that tries to explaim and justify the status quo |
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| midpoint of all households |
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| the figure established by the government to indicate the amount of money needed to support the basic needs of the household |
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| the social structure hierarchial position groups hold relative to the economic, social, political, and cultural recources of society |
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| a persons movement over time from one class to another |
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| class standing indicated by income, occupational prestige, and educational attainment |
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| group of people, largely minority and poor, who live at the absolute bottom of the socioeconomic ladder in urban areas |
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| programs in education and job hiring that recruit minorities over a wide range |
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| belief or behavior that defines Jewish people as inferior and targets them for stereotyping or mistreatment |
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| authoritarian personality |
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| characterized by a tendency to rigidly catagorize people and to submit to authority, rigidly conform, and be tolerant of ambiguity |
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| theory that prejudice will be reduced through social interaction of those of different races or ethnicity |
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| groups maintain their distinctive culture and history |
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| negative or unequal treatment of members of a social group solely because of their membership in that group |
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| view that a minority in society is forced to be a colonized group within the dominant society |
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| include traditional, aversive, laissez faire, color blind, and institutiional |
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| notions of racial inferiority that have become ingrained in society's institutions |
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| out group homogeneity effect |
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| tendency for an in group member to percieve members of any out group as similar or identical to each other |
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| negative evaluation of a social group based on conceptions about that group despite facts that contradict it |
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| spatial separation of a racial or ethnic group in different residential areas |
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| categorizing people onthe basis of what initially appears prominant about them |
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| explanations that attribute complex social phenomena to physical characteristics |
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| principle of paying women and men equivelant wages for jobs involviing similar levels of skill |
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| idea that men and women have different earnings because they tend to work in different segments of the labor market |
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| socially learned expectations and behaviors associated with members of each sex |
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| extreme segregation and exlusion of women from public life |
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| idea that whole institutions are patterned by gender |
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| irregularities in fetal formation produce persons with mixed sex charachteristics |
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| theory that explains differences in wages as the result of differences in the individual characteristics of the workers |
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| labor force participation rate |
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| percentage of those in a given category who are employed |
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