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Minorities Chp.2
Chapter Two vocabulary for American Minorities.
| Term | Definition |
|---|---|
| Social Structure | The organized patterns of behavior among the basic components of a social system. |
| Moral Orientation | Seeing the world in absolutes of right and wrong. |
| External Conformity | We tend to join, conform, and go along. |
| Individualism | Giving the individual priority over the group. |
| Acculturation | Minority groups adapt their distinctive cultural traits to those of the host society. |
| Paralinguistic Signals | Sounds but not words; a sigh for example |
| Thomas Theorem | If people define situations as real, those situations become real in their consequences. |
| Vicious-Circle Phenomenon | Dynamics of inter-group relations where prejudice and discrimination serve as reciprocal stimuli and responses to reinforce one another. |
| Cultural Diffusion | Cultures are inevitably influenced by other cultures. |
| Peaceful Coexistence | When two cultures are able to live beside one another without conflict. |
| Chain Migration | Immigrants settle in an area already containing family, friends, or compatriots who located there earlier. |
| Ethnogenesis | A process in which immigrants hold onto some homeland values, adapt others, and adopt some values of the host country. |
| Marginality | Living under stress in two cultures simultaneously. |
| Persistent Subcultures | Unassimilated subcultures. |
| Ethclasses | Sub-societies resulting from the intersection of stratification's (arranged in a hierarchical order) of race and ethnic group with stratification's of social class. |
| Culture of Poverty Thesis | A controversial viewpoint arguing that the disorganization and pathology of lower-class culture are self-perpetuating through cultural transmission. |
| Moynihan Report | Called for federal action to create jobs for black, male heads of household. |
| Economic Determinism | Structural barriers and discrimination; a theory that a society's economic base established its culture and general characteristics. |
| Cultural Differentiation | Differences between cultures that make one group distinguishable from another. |
| Assimilation Theory | The process by which members of racial or ethnic minorities function within a society without indicating differences. |
| Amalgamation Theory | The biological and cultural blending of two or more groups of people into a distinct new type. |
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