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Ch 13
Cal Gov
18
Political Studies
Undergraduate 4
02/21/2014

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Term
cultural amalgamation
Definition
settlers that intermarried widely, creating a dominant culture
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cultural seperatism
Definition
segregating different cultures often through housing
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cultural assimiliation
Definition
to succeed minority groups need to adopt the practices and characteristics of the host society
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cultural hyperpluralism
Definition
various, ethnic, racial, religious, and other groups balancing the idea of "one people" with the reality of group identity
Term
Therapeutic Abortion act
Definition
allowable reasons for abortion were expanded to include rape and incest, the mental health of the mother, and whether or not the infant would likely be deformed
Term
Pressures on education
Definition
enrollment growth (increase in school age population)
ethnic hyperpluralism (shifting of schools ethnic composition)
social conflict
funding challenge
Term
Serrano v Priest
Definition
CAs educational finance system based on local property values created created disparities between districts
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Hart Hughes education reform act
Definition
established higher high school graduation requirements
longer school days and years
Term
Master Plan for Higher Education
Definition
Donahoe Higher education act
1) prescibed enrollment parameters for each level
2) assigned different missions to each level
3) created governance structure to operate each sector and resolve the inevitable turf battles that would occur
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DREAM Act
Definition
would provide a multistep path toward citizenship for those students who were brought to the US as children
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ambivalent benevolence
Definition
on one hand a caring concern for CAs truely needy and on the other a reluctance to support over reliance on public assistance
Term
deserving poor
Definition
poor presuming no fault of their own
ie children, disabled
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undeserving poor
Definition
unemployed able bodied adults especially men, the "lifestyle" poor or unemployed, and abusers of drugs and alcohol
Term
CalWORKS
Definition
CAs major program to aid needy families
Term
fee-for-service
Definition
paying doctors for the specific services they provide
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managed care
Definition
networks of doctors and hospitals providing comprehensive services at a predetermined price
Term
MediCal
Definition
Cas version of the federal medicare program for low income individuals
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deinstitutionalization
Definition
trends
1) legislature reduced funding for mental health programs and shifted them to counties
2) mental health professionals embraced a new treatment philosophy that placed patients in communities not institutions
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