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113 Cards in this Set
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Balance between conflict and cooperation
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Accomodation
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laws designed to ensure equality for minorities (women, handicapped, etc.)
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Affirmative Action
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Blending of races or culture THROUGH MARRIAGE.
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Amalgamation
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Encorporating a new area into your society
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Annexation
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state or NORMlessness (doesn't follow norms of society, hobos, street people)
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Anomie
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practicing to become an adult
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Anticipatory Socialization
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ability to learn a new skill
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Aptitude
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status you're born with or have no control over
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Ascribed status
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blending of cultures
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Assimilation
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who has the right to rule (LEGITIMATE power)
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Authority
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NON-OBVIOUS racism
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Aversive racism
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*person*
NOW (National Organization of Women), modern women's rights, Feminine Mestique |
Betty Friedan
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UFW (United Farm Workers), fought for migrant farmers' rights |
Cesar Chaves
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Type of leader that has a powerful personality
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Expressive (charismatic) Leader
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Law based on judges' decisions (precedents)
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Common Law
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line of communication between one end of a group and another
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Continuum
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A deviant behavior that violates the law, a public wrong, any act that is deemed as such by a governing body
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Crime
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A small group loosely attatched to a religious idea but strangely attatched to its leader
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Cult
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Someone who accepts the goals of society and the normal means to attain them
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Conformer
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Law that comes form the framework of the government (amendments, etc)
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Constitutional Law
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choices withing the universe (sandals or shoes, hot dog or hamburger, etc)
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Cultural Alternative
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total amount of trats in a culture at any given time
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Cultural Base
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clusters of interrelated traits
1. traits (pencil) 2. ____ (school) 3. patterns (school district) |
Cultural Complex
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some parts of culture change slower than others
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Cultural Lag
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Clusters of interrelated complexes
1. traits 2.complexes 3.____ |
Cultural Pattern
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when society has more than one social group
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Cultural Pluralism
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Common traits found in all human cultures (accepted and required by all cultures with some exceptions)
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Cultural Universals
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the shared learned behavior of a people (the ideas)
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Culture
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a person with a behavior that violates significant social norms
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Deviant
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borrowing traits from another culture
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Diffusion
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the denial of equal treatment to group members.
(this is the act) |
Discrimination
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These people make the rules for society
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Dominant Members
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culture that is shared by a select few, but prized by many
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Elite Culture
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movement OUT of a country
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Emigration
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marriage outside one's own social category
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Exogamy
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type of family, three or more generations living in the same house
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Extended Family
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type of family, husband, wife, children
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Nuclear Family
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anything to promote equality to women
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Feminism
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norms that are not critical to society but make life easier
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Folkways
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the most serious crimes (murder, rape, kidnapping)
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Felonies
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A group with rules, structure, and function
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Formal Group
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Sexual Development; trying to explain why we are unhappy (his answer: because of society's restrictions) |
Freud
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when you're a woman of color and are refused promotions
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Gendered Racism
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woman can see the highest jobs, but can't get to them
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"Glass Ceiling"
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marrying someone with the same social characteristics as you
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Homogamy
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Discrimination in society that is out of habit (ex:women paid less than men)
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Institutionalized Discrimination
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a group that tends to influence the government in their own favor
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Interest Group
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*person*
first African American elected to congress from the SOUTH |
John Lewis
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*person*
first African American to enroll in the University of Mississippi |
James Meredith
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a set of symbols and rules that, put together in a meaningful way, forms our communication system, reflects the views of the culture in regard to race, gender, and class structure
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Language
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written rules of conduct, enforced by some government agency, that we deemed as very important
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Laws
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laws from a legislative body (Congress)
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Legislative (statuatory) Law
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responsible for the My Lai Massacre
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Lt. William Calley
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SCLC, Civil Rights leader, nonviolent, "I have a dream"
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Martin Luther King Jr.
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founder of communism
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Karl Marx
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humanist, heirarchy of needs
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Maslow
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when two urban areas overlay
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Megalopolis
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the movement of persons from one country or locality to another
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Migration
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case that established the rights of the accused
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Miranda v. Arizona
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crimes more serious than summary offenses (assault, burglary, etc)
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Misdemeanors
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a medium of exchange used to trade for goods and services; easy to carry, easy to change and is readily accepted.
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Money and Monetary System
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marriage between one man and one woman
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Monogamy
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a norm that is critical to society but may or may not be written down
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Mores (pronounced More-ays)
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live on your own, away from your family
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Neolocal
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shared rules of conduct on how to behave
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Norms
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work will expand to fill the time given for its completion. (I hire two people to take my spot if I get promoted)
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Parkinson's Law
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we promote people to a level of incompetence
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Peter Principle
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father is in charge
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Patriarchy
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lives with HIS family
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Patrilocal
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she has more than one husband
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Polyandry
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the total number of people in a given area at a given time
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Population Base
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the number of people per square mile
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Population Density
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when you cannot meet the basic needs food, clothing, or shelter
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Poverty
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the ability to control or influence others
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Power
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unsupported ideas about a group of people based on misjudgment
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Prejudice
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when people can be classified as distinct based on the appearance or culture
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Race
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corresponding opposite roles (father-son, husband-wife)
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Reciprocal Roles
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a group that meets over and over
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Recurrent Group
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one of the five social institutions. A belief in one or more supernatural beings, gives people a reason to live, a sense of comfort and belonging, and a sense of purpose.
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Religion
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when a group weighs risks differently than the individual would
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Risky Shift
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a ceremony marking a change in status (usually religious)
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Rite of Passage
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*person*
Humanist, conditions of worth, unconditional positive regard |
Carl Rogers
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A conflict because of your duties in two different social institutions (can't study because I'm babysitting)
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Role Conflict
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how you're expected to behave in a role
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Role Expectation
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you have a difficult time in your role inside one social institution
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Role Strain
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*person*
refused to ride in back of bus, Civil Rights Movement |
Rosa Parks
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AIM (American Indian Movement) leader
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Russel Means
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rewards and punishments to enforce the norms
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Sanctions
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blaming someone else for your problems
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Scapegoating
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spatial separating of the races
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Segregation
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your biological identity
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Sex
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when almost everyone conforms to the norms
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Social Control
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a collective effort by a number of people to bring about change in society
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Social Movement
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a number of people living in the same geographical area who share a common culture and a feeling of unity
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Society
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touch
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Somatosensory Cortex
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when the government commits a crime
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State Organized Crime
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your socially defined position
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Status
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an oversimplified set of beliefs about a group of people
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Stereotype
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how society is organized
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Structure
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a minor crime (traffic ticket)
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Summary Offense
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*person*
First African American Chief Justice of the Supreme Court, lawyer in Brown v. Topeka, NAACP |
Thurgood Marshall
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a private wrong (civil case)
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Tort
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an individual aspect of personality. Also, the smallest unit of culture (it’s a tool, act or belief, ex: pen)
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Trait
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2500 or more people per square mile
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Urban Area
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these are the impoverished people in the modern world (in cities)
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Urban Underclass
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poorest, most underdeveloped countries in the world
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Third World
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Cuba, China, Russia, and her former communist allies
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Second World
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The U.S. and her allies
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First World
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the shared ideas of what is right, good, and important in society
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Values
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minorities don’t try as hard to be successful because they’ve been denied in the past.
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Victimization Perspective
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White Anglo-Saxon Protestant, America’s dominant members
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WASPs
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father of psychology
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Wundt
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when birth rate and death rate are equal
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Zero Population Growth
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