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| Similarity and Attractions |
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| persons like others because of similar attitudes, values, beliefs, social status, or physical appearance |
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| the degree of closeness or remoteness one desires in interaction with members of a particular group. |
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| people perceive strangers primarily through categoric knowing- the classification of others on the basis of limited information obtained visually and perhaps verbally. |
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| theorized strangers represent body nearness, because they are physically close and remoteness, because they react differently to the immediate situation and have different values and ways of doing things |
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| analyzed the stranger as lacking “intersubjective understanding”, by this he meant that people from the same social world mutually know the language, customs, beliefs, symbols, and everyday behavior patterns that the stranger usually doesn’t. |
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| movement of people into and out of a specified area |
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| movement of people out of a country to settle in another |
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| movement of people into a new country to become permanent resident |
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| the various parts of society have functions, or positive effects, that promote solidarity and maintain the stability of the whole. |
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| obvious and intended results |
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| hidden and unexpected results |
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| influenced by Karl Marx: see society as being continually engaged in a series of disagreements, tensions, and clashes as different groups compete for limited recourses. |
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| examines the micro social world of personal interaction patterns in everyday life rather than the macro social aspects of social institutions and their harmony or conflict. |
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| sociologist who investigates how people interpret the situations they are in |
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| a culturally and physically distinctive group that experiences unequal treatment a sense of shared identity and that practices endogamy |
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| Characteristics of minority groups: |
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1.the group receives unequal treatment as a group
2.the group is easily identifiable because of physical characteristics
3.feels a sense of people hood—that each of them shares something in common with other members
4.Membership in the minority group has ascribed status: one is born into it. (sex, race, age, family background)
5.group members practice endogamy: they tend to marry within their group either by choice or by necessity, because of their social isolation |
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| any culturally or physically distinctive social grouping possessing economic, political, and social power and discriminating against a subordinate minority group |
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| one is born into it. (sex, race, age, family background) |
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| they tend to marry within their group either by choice or by necessity, because of their social isolation |
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| a categorization in which a large number of people sharing visible biological characteristics regard themselves or are regarded by others as a single group on the basis. |
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| linking the biological conditions of a human organism with alleged sociolcultural capabilities and behavior to assert the superiority of one race. |
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| refers only to social groupings that the dominant group considers unique because of religious, linguistic, or cultural characteristivs. |
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| a view of things in which ones own group is the center of everything and all others are scaled and rated with reference to is. (people usually view their own culture values as superior than those of other groups. |
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| a group to which individuals belong and feel loyal (EX: sororities and fraternities) |
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| all people who are not members of ones ingroup |
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| holds that ingroup members almost automatically think of their group as better than outgroups. |
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| a variation of ethnocentrism in which the content, emphasis, or both in history, literature, and other humanities primarily, if not exclusively, concern western culture. (under representing non-European material) |
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| a viewpoint emphasizing African culture and its influence on Western civilization and the behavior of American blacks. |
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| socially shared conceptions of what is good, desirable, and proper or bad, undesirable, and improper. |
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| Any inaccurate comparison based on simplistic categorizations and anachronistic judgments. EX: criticism of an immigrant group, compared to an earlier one. |
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| hostile behavior against people solely because of their race, religion, ethnicity, or sexual orientation |
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