Chapter 3
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18 terms
Terms | Definitions |
|---|---|
 Discrimination | The denial of opportunities and equal rights to individuals and groups because of prejudice or for other arbitrary reasons |
| Relative deprivation | the conscious experience of a negative discrepancy between legitimate expectations and present actualities |
| Absolute deprivation | The minimum level of subsistence below which families or individuals should not be expected to exist |
| total discrimination | the combination of current discrimination with past discriminaiton created by poor schools and menial jobs |
| Institutional discrimination | A denial of opportunities and equal rights to individuals or groups resulting from the normal operation of a society |
| Informal economy | transfers of money, goods, or services that are not reported to the government. Common in inner-city neighborhoods and poverty-stricken rural areas |
| Irregular or underground economy | transfers of money, goods, or services that are not reported to the government. Common in inner-city neighborhoods and poverty-stricken rural areas |
| Dual Labor Market | Division of the economy into two areas of employment, the secondary one of which is populated primarily by minorities working at menial jobs |
| States' Rights | The prinicple, reinvoked in the late 1940's that holds that each state is sovereign and has the right to order its own affairs without interference by the federal government |
| Redlining | The pattern of discrimination against people trying to buy homes in minority and racially changing neighborhoods |
| Income | Salaries, wages, and other money received |
| Wealth | An inclusive term encompassing all of a person's material assets, including land and other types of property |
| Environmental justice | Efforts to ensure that hazardous substances are controlled so that all communities receive protection regardless of race or socioeconomic circumstances |
| Affirmative action | Positive efforts to recruit subordinate group members, including women, for jobs, promotions, and educaitonal opportunities |
| Reverse discrimination | Actions that cause better qualified white men to be passed over for women and minority men |
| Glass Ceiling | The barrier that blocks the promotion of a qualified worker because of gender or minority membership |
| Glass Wall | A barrier to moving laterally in a business to positions that are more likely to lead to upward mobility |
| Glass Escalator | The male advantage experienced in occupations dominated by women |
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