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| Either the male or female division of a species, especially as differentiated with reference to the reproductive functions. |
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| A range of physical, mental, and behavioral characteristics distinguishing between Masculinity and Femininity. |
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| Behavior conveying gender to others: a set of behaviors, whether deliberate or unconscious, that indicates whether somebody's gender identity is male or female. |
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| Gender Role Socialization |
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| The process of learning the social expectations and attitudes associated with one's sex. Gender socialization occurs through such diverse means as parental attitudes, schools, how peers interact with each other, and mass media. |
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| A society's unequal distribution of wealth, power and privilege between the two sexes. |
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| The "shift" of work handled by women at home, consisting of housework. |
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| Barrier to career advancement: an unofficial but real impediment to somebody's advancement into upper-level management positions because of discrimination based on the person's gender, age, race, ethnicity, or sexual preference. |
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| The rapid promotion of men over women, especially into management, in female-dominated fields such as nursing. |
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| A phenomenon in which women represent disproportionate percentages of the world’s poor. |
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| Functionalist Perspective on Gender |
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| Functionalists suggest that families are organized along instrumental-expressive lines, with men specializing in instrumental tasks and women in expressive tasks. |
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| Conflict Perspective on Gender |
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| Conflict theorists contend that a sexual division of labor is a social vehicle devised by men to ensure themselves of privilege, prestige, and power in their relationships with women. |
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| Feminist Perspective on Gender |
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| Feminists argue that women are disadvantaged because society is patriarchal; the assignment of group differences is socially costly and repressive. Everyday interactions between men and women recreate and support the gender system. |
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| Symbolic Intersactionist Perspective on Gender |
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| Interactionists argue that gender inequality persists because of the way we define men and women and their appropriate roles in society. Language helps perpetuate inequality. |
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| Gay, Lesbian, Bisexual, Transexual, Queer |
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| A general term applied to a variety of individuals, behaviors, and groups involving tendencies to vary from culturally conventional gender roles. |
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| Discrimination directed at age: discrimination or prejudice against people of specific ages, especially in employment. |
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| Refers to the average age of Americans getting older because the baby boom generation is into middle age and senior citizenship. |
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| A classification system used to categorize humans into large and distinct populations or groups by anatomical, cultural, ethnic, genetic, geographical, historical, linguistic, religious, or social affiliation. |
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| Ethnic affiliation: ethnic affiliation or distinctiveness. |
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| The developmental processes by which children acquire the behaviors, perceptions, values, and attitudes of an ethnic group, and come to see themselves and others as members of the group. |
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| A social group that controls the value system and rewards in a particular society. |
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| A group of people who, because of their physical or cultural characteristics, are singled out from the others in the society in which they live for differential and unequal treatment, and who therefore regard themselves as objects of collective discrimination. |
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| Minority Group Properties |
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| 1. Unequal treatment, 2. Physical or cultural traits, 3. Ascribed status, 4. Solidarity, 5. In-group marriage. |
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| Opinion formed beforehand: a preformed opinion, usually an unfavorable one, based on insufficient knowledge, irrational feelings, or inaccurate stereotypes. |
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| Treating people differently through prejudice: unfair treatment of one person or group, usually because of prejudice about race, ethnicity, age, religion, or gender. |
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| Animosity toward other races: prejudice or animosity against people who belong to other races. |
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| Crime motivated by hate for group: a crime that is motivated by hate, prejudice, or intolerance of somebody's religion, ethnicity, or sexual orientation. |
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| Gloria Yamat's 4 Types of Racism |
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- Aware Blatant
- Aware Covert
- Unaware Unintentional
- Unaware Self-Righteous
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| Outright racists that, without apology or confusion, tell people of color, that because of their color, they “don’t appeal to them.” |
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| When racists are being racist but just not saying it. For instance, upon seeing that a potential tenant is Indian, rather than saying it directly, a landlord will pull the apartment “off the market” without providing an explanation. |
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“With the best of intentions, the best of educations, and the greatest generosity of heart, whites, operating on the misinformation fed to them from day one, will behave in ways that are racist, will perpetuate racism by being ‘nice’ the way we’re taught to be nice.”
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| “The ‘good white’ racist attempts to shame Blacks into being blacker, scorns Japanese-Americans who don’t speak Japanese, and knows more about the Chicano/a community than the folks who make up the community.” |
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| Dominant-Minority Group Relations Continuum: Genocide/Ethnic Cleansing |
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| the systematic effort to kill all members of a particular ethnic religious political racial or national group |
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| Dominant-Minority Group Relations Continuum: Segregation |
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| the physical and social separation of dominant and minority groups |
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| Dominant-Minority Group Relations Continuum: Assimiliation |
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| the process of conforming to the culture of the dominant group by adopting its language and values and intermarrying with that group |
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| Peggy McIntosh's White Privileges Discussion |
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| White privilege is like an invisible weightless knapsack of special provisions, maps, passports, codebooks, visas, clothes, tools and blank checks."[4] McIntosh emphasizes that these privileges are not distributed equally or shared by individuals of every race. |
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| Functionalst Perspective of Race/Ethnicity |
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| Functionalists say that ethnic differentiation reduces consensus, increases the chances of conflict, and threatens the equilibrium of a society, but it also promotes group formation and cohesion, functions as a safety valve through scapegoating, and helps maintain a democratic order. |
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| Conflict Perspective of Race/Ethnicity |
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| Conflict theorists contend that prejudice and discrimination can best be understood in terms of tension or conflict among competing groups. At least three different conflict theories exist, and they are related to ethnocentrism, Marxism, and the split labor market. |
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| Feminist Perspective on Race/Ethnicity |
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| Conflict theorists contend that prejudice and discrimination can best be understood in terms of tension or conflict among competing groups. At least three different conflict theories exist, and they are related to ethnocentrism, Marxism, and the split labor market. |
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| Symbolic Interactionist Perspective on Race/Ethnicity. |
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| Interactionists say that the world we experience is socially constructed. In this view, ethnic groups are seen as products of social interaction. Ethnicity arises when communication channels between groups are limited and the different groups develop different systems of meanings. |
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| Intersectionality is a methodology of studying "the relationships among multiple dimensions and modalities of social relationships and subject formations" (McCall 2005). The theory suggests that—and seeks to examine how—various biological, social and cultural categories such as gender, race, class, ability, sexual orientation, and other axes of identity interact on multiple and often simultaneous levels, contributing to systematic social inequality. |
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| a basic social unit consisting of parents and their children, considered as a group, whether dwelling together or not. |
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| the INTENDED functions of an institution. |
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| the UNINTENDED functions of an institution. |
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| Marriage refers to a socially approved sexual union undertaken with some idea of permanence. Two types of marital regulations define the "right" spouse: endogamy and exogamy. Incest taboos are rules that prohibit sexual intercourse with close blood relatives. Societies further structure marriage relationships in one of four ways: monogamy, polygyny, polyandry, and group marriage. |
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| Functionalist Perspective on Family |
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| Functionalists identify a number of functions families typically perform: reproduction; socialization; care, protection, and emotional support; assignment of status; and regulation of sexual behavior through the norm of legitimacy. |
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| Conflict Perspective on Family |
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| Conflict theorists have seen the family as a social arrangement benefiting men more than women. Some conflict sociologists say that intimate relationships inevitably involve antagonism as well as love. |
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| Feminist Perspective on Family |
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| Feminist theorists have seen the family as a social arrangement benefiting men more than women. Some feminist sociologists say that intimate relationships inevitably involve antagonism as well as love. |
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| Symbolic Interactionist Perspective on Family |
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| Symbolic interactionists emphasize that families reinforce and rejuvenate their bonds through the symbolic mechanism of rituals such as family meals and holidays. |
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| Marriage in which a spouse of either sex may have more than one mate at the same time. |
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| Simultaneous marriage to multiple wives: the custom of being married to more than one wife at the same time. |
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| Simultaneous marriage to multiple husbands: the custom of having more than one husband at a time. |
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| Marriage to one person: the practice of being married to only one person at a time. |
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| Practice of having series of partners: the idea or practice of having only one sexual partner at a time and entering another relationship when one comes to an end. |
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| Live together: to live together, especially without being formally married. |
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| One of several terms applied to the current generation of young adults in Western culture. They are so named for the frequency with which they choose to cohabitate with their parents after a brief period of living on their own – thus boomeranging back to their place of origin. |
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| A generation of people who care for their aging parents while supporting their own children. |
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