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Achieved status |
A position of status attained by something a person does or accomplishes rather than by birth. |
Chapter 5 |
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Annexation |
An expansion of territory by one group to take control over territory formerly under control of another group. |
Chapter 5 |
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Ascribed status |
Any characteristic or status determined by birth such as race, sex or who one's parents are. |
Chapter 5 |
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Caste system |
A system of social inequality with two or more rigidly defined and unequal groups, membership in which is determined by birth and passed from generation to generation. |
Chapter 5 |
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Colonization |
A form of intergroup contact that occurs when one group migrates into an area occupied by another group and subordinates that indigeneous group. |
Chapter 5 |
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Fluid competitive race relations |
A pattern of race relations best described as a class with racial inequalities remaining from a past racial caste system. |
Chapter 5 |
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Immigration |
Migration of one group into an area controlled by another group. |
Chapter 5 |
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Paternalistic race relations |
A pattern of intergroup relations usually found in agricultural, preindustrial societies. |
Chapter 5 |
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Rigid competitive race relations |
A pattern of race relations resembling an unstable caste system |
Chapter 5 |
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Segregation |
The separation of two groups into separate neighborhoods, schools, workplaces, and so on. |
Chapter 5 |
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Colonized minority |
A minority group that initially became a part of the society it lives in through conquest or annexation. |
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Immigrant minority |
A minority group that voluntarily migrated into the country or society in which it lives. |
Chapter 6 |
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Internal colonialism |
A theory that argues that colonized minorites experience discrimination different in kind or degree from that experienced by immigrant minorities and as a result have less upward mobility and less assimilation. |
Chapter 6 |
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Segregation |
The separation of two groups into separate neighborhoobs, schools, workplaces and so on. |
Chapter 6 |
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Social distance |
A preference to avoid certain kinds of contact with minority groups. |
Chapter 6 |
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Relative deprivation |
The experience of having less of scarce resources than other individuals or groups, or less than what is believed to be a fair share. |
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Afrocentrism |
An effort by African Americans to emphasize and value African history, philosophy, and culture, particularly (but not only) in education. |
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Amalgamation |
The combination of two racial or ethnic groups into one through marriage or other sexual contact. |
Chapter 8 |
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Cultural assimilation |
A type of assimilation in which two or more groups gradually come to share a common culture, that is, similar attitudes, values, language, beliefs, lifestyles, and rules about behavior. |
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Cultural pluralism |
A pattern in which different racial, ethnic, or other groups retain cultural features that are specific to each group but hold some others that are common to all groups in society. |
Chapter 8 |
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Enviromental racism |
A tendency for minority groups to be placed at disproportionate risk of exposure to hazardous substances and enviromental contaminants. |
Chapter 8 |
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Seperatism |
The establishment of, or the attempt to establish, entirely seperate societies made up of distinct racial, ethnic, or other groups that formerly existed within one society. |
Chapter 8 |
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Structural assimilation |
A type of assimilation in which two or more groups gradually come to share a common social structure; that is, they share common institutions, organizations, and friendship networks and have roughly equal positions within these structures. |
Chapter 8 |
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Structural pluralism |
A situataion in which two or more groups operate within a common social structure up to a point, but some institutions, organizations, and patterns of interpersonal contact are distinct and separate for each group. |
Chapter 8 |