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Sociology
Undergraduate 2
10/20/2013

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Socialization
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Process through which people learn the expectations of a society
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Values
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Abstract standards in a society or group that Define principles
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Beliefs
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Shared ideas held collectively between people in a culture
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Norms
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Specific cultural expectations for how to act in a given situation
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Culture
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Complex system d meanings and behaviors that defines the way of life for a given group in society
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Hegemony
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Power or dominance that one group holds over another
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Self fulfilling prophecy
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Process by which merely adding a label changes behavior and this tends to justify the label
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Looking glass self
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Self continues to develop as our consciousness of our own self and others evolves
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Socioeconomic class
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A measure of class standing typically indicated by income occupation or education
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White privilege
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White people benefit from racism invisibly
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One drop rule
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A person with any African blood is considered to be black
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Miscegenation
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Marriage cohabitation and sex between a white person and someone of a different race
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Social inequality
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The condition that results from those in power dominate the political and economic decision making
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Magic bullet theory
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Thought that the mass media shoots ideas into your mind and changes your opinion on thingss
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Identity
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Developed through our personal interaction with others and the information we recieve about ourselves
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Social learning theory
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Explains the socialization by explaining how we take in what we are told and what we observe and that with enough repetition this becomes how we see the truth or reality
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Liberation theory
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That we are born with innate qualities of brilliant and happiness and that negative ideas are learned
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Fabric of oppression
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Describes the structural arrangement of privileges resources and power. Those not in power feel the oppression as a result
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Blaxploitation
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Urban films targeting controversial black topics
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Racism
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Based on reasoning express or implied of the superiority of one human groups over another
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Race
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A group of people united or classified together on the basis of common history nationality or geographic distribution
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Poverty
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The state or condition of having little or no money
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Ethnicity
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A socially defined category of people who indenting with each other based on shared social experience or ancestry
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Discrimination
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Action based on a prejudice. Unfair act for racial reasons
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Prejudice
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Negative attitude or belief towards a race or culture
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Capitalism
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Economic system where small business are owned and ran by the people
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Democracy
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Govt by the people
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Wealth
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A large amount of money and valuable possesions
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Income
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Amount of money or goods recieved in a period of time in exchange for service or goods
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Selective perception hypothesis
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Viewers with different degrees of prejudice would have different reasons for watching programs and would find different meanings in things
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Entertainment media
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Communication can also entertain the society
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Collective consciousness
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Set of shared beliefs ideas and morals which operate as a unifying force in a society
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Multicultural
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Affirms the worth of different types of culture and cultural groups have their own validity and importance
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Social self
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You develop a sense of your self. Two stages. Play stage and game stage
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Media theory
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Cultural studies as applied to the mass media. Five things. Hegemony, ideology, political economy, textual analysis, audience reception
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Ethnic cleansing
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Wiping a ethnicity from an area
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Cultural pluralism
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Keeping your own cultural identity even when living in a larger society with a different culture
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