SOCIOL 1A06 Study Guide - Midterm Guide: Miscegenation, Exogamy, Hegemonic Masculinity
13 Apr 2013
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10 miscegenation the technical term for multiracial marriage: literally meaning a mixing of two kinds : it politically and historically charged sociologists generally prefer exogamy or out-marriage. 13 symbolic ethnicity a nationality, not in the sense of carrying the rights and duties of citizenship but identifying with a past of future nationality. For later generations, of white ethnics, something not constraining but easily expressed, with no risks of stigma and all the pleasures of feeling like an individual. Robert park s 1920 universal and linear model for how immigrants assimilate, first thing they arrive, the settle in, and achieve full assimilation in a newly homogenous country. 22 discrimination harmful or negative acts (not mere thoughts) against people deemed inferior on the basis of their racial category without regard to their individual merit. 23 female circumcision the removal of a woman"s sexually sensitive clitoris.
