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| a socially defined category based on common language religion nationality history or another cultural factor |
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| physical, behavioral, & personality traits that a group considers normal for its male/female members |
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| inherent physical differences define distinctions between the two sexes |
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| believe gender roles have a genetic or biological origin & cannot be changed |
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| roles & traits that a social group assigns to a particular gender |
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| those who believe that notions of gender are socially determined |
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| "rule of the father"; male dominated society |
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Family member that:
-provides material support
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-is often authority figure |
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Family member that:
-provides emotional support
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-nurturing |
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| individual whose sense of gender identity is at odds with her or his physical sex but who has not necessarily sought sex-reassignment surgery |
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| gender role socialization |
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| lifelong process of learning to be masculine or feminine, primarily through 4 agents of socialization; families, schools, peers, & the media |
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| process of learning behaviors & meanings through social interaction |
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| economic trend showing that women are more likely than men to live in poverty |
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| unpaid housework & childcare often expected of women after they complete their day's paid labor |
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| belief in social, political, & economic equality of the sexes |
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| earliest period of feminist activism. |
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| organized around gaining voting rights for women |
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period of feminist activity during 60's & 70's
-issues of women's equal access to employment & education |
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most recent period of feminist activity
-issues of diversity & the variety of identities women can possess |
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| movement that originated in the 70's to discuss the challenges of masculinity |
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| members believe that feminism promotes discrimination against men |
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| pro-feminist men's movement |
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| members support feminism & believe that sexism harms both men & women |
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| to feel sexual desire toward people of a particular gender or toward both genders |
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| tendency to feel sexual desire toward members of one's own gender |
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| alternative to gay marriage; form of legally recognized commitment that provides gay couple some of the benefits of marriage |
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| individuals who are sexually attracted to both genders |
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| person who has no interest in or desire for sex |
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| social theory about gender identity & sexuality that emphasizes the importance of difference |
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| fear of homosexuals or toward individuals who display purportedly gender-inappropriate behavior |
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| ethnic identity that is only relevant on specific occasions. |
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| a socially defined category based on real or perceived by biological differences between groups of people |
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| ethnic identity that can neither be displayed or concealed depending on its usefulness in a given situation |
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| members of a social group that is systematically denied the same access to power resources available to society's dominant groups but are not necessarily fewer than number..just denied more |
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| a set of beliefs about the superiority of one racial or ethnic group (racism presumes that one group is better than another) |
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| literally a prejudgment but its an idea of the characteristics of a group that is applied to all members of a group (all Irish are drunks) |
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| unequal treatment of individuals because of their membership in a certain racial or ethnic group |
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| individual discrimination |
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| discrimination carried out by one person against another |
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| institutional discrimination |
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| discrimination carried out systematically by institutions that affect all members of a group who come in contact with it (governments, schools, or banks) |
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| presenting yourself as a different racial group than the one you were born into (Sammi Sosa) |
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| racial & ethnic differences is a necessary part of society even racial inequalities has functions that help maintain equality |
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| racial and ethnic differences create intergroup conflict and minority and majority groups have diff. interest and may find themselves at odds as they attempt to protect them |
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| race & ethnicity are part of our presentation of self |
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| those elements of identity that are generated through others perceptions of our physical traits. (way we are perceived in physical world) |
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| the forcible removal of a group of people from a territory they have occupied (Trail of Tears) |
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| the economic and political domination and subjugation of the minority group by the controlling group within a nation |
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| the formal and legal separation of groups by race or ethnicity |
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| a pattern of relation between ethnic groups in which minority group is absorbed into dominant group making society more homogeneous |
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| process by which racial minority groups are absorbed through dominate group through marriage |
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| the process by which racial or ethnic groups are absorbed into dominant group by adopting dominant groups culture |
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| a cultural pattern of intergroup relations that encourages racial and ethnic variation within society (not only permits racial and ethnic variation within ones society, it actually encourages people to embrace diversity) |
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| intersexed or hermaphroditic |
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| describe person whose chromosomes or sex characteristics are neither exclusively female or male |
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