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Chapter 6
CA
| Term | Definition |
|---|---|
| Socioeconomic Status | An overall rank based on characteristics such as education and occupation, used to describe people's positions in stratification systems. |
| Impede | To delay or prevent. |
| Prejudice | The negative for positive evaluations or judgments of members of a group that are based primarily on group memberships, and not necessarily on the particular characteristics of individuals |
| Digital Divide | The difference between people who have access to the internet ad the people who do not. |
| Marginalization | The state that occurs when people identify neither with their minority culture nor with the majority culture. |
| Globalization | Worldwide integration and development |
| Social Learning View | The theory that suggests that people develop prejudice and stereotype about members of various groups in the same way they learn other attitudes, beliefs, and values. |
| Discrimination | The negative or sometimes positive actions taken toward members of a particular group because of their membership in the group. |
| Cultural Assimilation Model | The model in which the goal of education is to assimilate individual culture identities into a unique, unified American culture. |
| Ethic Identity | How members of ethnic, racial, and cultural minorities view themselves, both as members of their own group and in terms relationships with other groups. |
| Social Identity Theory | The theory that individuals use groups membership as a source of pride and self-worth. |
| Pluralistic Society Model | The model in which American society is made up of diverse, coequal culture groups that should preserve their individual culture features. |
| Integration | The process in which people maintain their own culture while simultaneously seeking to adapt and incorporate the majority culture. |
| Separation | The state that occurs when people identify with the ethnic minority culture to which they belong while rejecting or rebuffing the majority culture. |
| Subcultural | The cultural values and behavioral patterns distinctive of a particular group in a society. |
| Acculturation | The changes and adjustments that occur when groups of different people come into sustained firsthand contact. |
| Bicultural Identity | Is the condition of being oneself regarding the combination of two cultures. |
| Assimilation | The state that occurs when a person begins to identify with thee mainstream culture and rejects the minority culture. |
| Multicultural Education | A form of education in which the goal is to help minority students develop competence in the culture of the majority group while maintaining positive group identities that build on their original culture. |
| Developmentally Appropriate Education Practice | Education that is based on both typical development and the unique characteristics a given child. |
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