Sociology

Positive efforts to recruit minority group members or women for jobs, promotions and educational opportunities.

The process through which a majority group and a minority group combine to form a new group.

Anti-Jewish prejudice

The process through which a person forsakes his or her own cultural tradition to become part of a different culture.

The denial of opportunities and equal rights to individuals and groups because because of prejudice or other arbitrary reasons.

An invisible barrier that blocks the promotion of a qualified individual in a work environment because of the individual's gender, race, or ethnicity.

The denial of opportunities and equal rights to individuals and groups that results from the normal operations of a society.

A subordinate group whose members have significantly less control or power over their own lives than the members of a dominant or majority group have over theirs.

A negative attitude toward an entire category of people, often an ethnic or racial minority

The belief that one race is supreme and all others are innately inferior.

An unreliable generalization about all members of a group that does not recognize individual differences within the group

Expectations regarding the proper behavior, attitudes, and activities of males and females.

The ideology that one sex is superior to the other.

The denial of opportunities and equal rights to individuals and groups that results from the normal operations of a society.

An increase in the lowest level of education required to enter a field.

Standards of behavior that are deemed proper by society and are taught subtly in schools.

Use of a church, primarily Roman Catholicism, in a political effort to eliminate poverty, discrimination, and other forms of injustice from a secular society.

Power made legitimate by a leader's exceptional personal or emotional appeal to his or her followers.

Power made legitimate by law.

Legitimate power conferred by custom or accepted practice.

Organized collective activity to bring about or resist fundamental change in an existing group or society.

A society whose economic system is engaged primarily in the processing and control of information.

Max Weber's term for the disciplined work ethic, this-worldly concerns, and rational orientation to life emphasized by John Calvin and his followers.

Statistics concerning the important events in human life, such as births, deaths, marriages, and migrations.

• An official, usually periodic enumeration of a population, often including the collection of related demographic information.
• 2. In ancient Rome, a count of the citizens and an evaluation of their property for taxation purposes.

An organized collective activity that addresses values and social identities, as well as improvements in the quality of life.

The way social movement utilizes such resources as money, political influence, access to the media, and personnel.

• New social movements ten to focus on more than just economic issues, and often cross national boundaries.
• Advanced in communications technology have had a major impact in social movements.

• This is a feeling of negative discrepancy between legitimate expectations and present realities.
• People feel the have a right to their goals.
• People perceive they cannot attain their goals through conventional means.