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“The scientific study of population, especially its growth and decline, as well as the movement of people”
What is Demography?
"The physical and social separation of majority and minority groups"
What is Segregation?
"The reinvestment of real estate capital in blighted inner-city areas in order to rebuild residences and create a new infrastructure for the well-to-do".
What is Gentrification?
According to Robert K. Merton's Strain Theory, these individuals realize that they will not be able to achieve cultural goals, but they nonetheless continue to engage in the conventional behavior associated with such success.
What are Ritualists?
“The idea that members of any given minority group are affected by the nature of their position in other systems or other forms of social inequality"
What is Intersectionality?
"The act of defining a group as a race and attributing negative characteristics to that group."
What is racism?
This article focuses on the "effects joblessness and declining wages have had on inner-city neighborhoods in Chicago".
What is "When Work Disappears: The World of the New Urban Poor" by Wilson?
According to Robert K. Merton's Strain Theory, these individuals accept both cultural goals and the traditional means of achieving them.
What are Conformists?
This article focuses on Barbara Ehrenreich's experience of trying to "work and survive on the wages most unskilled workers receive in America".
What is "Nickel and Dimed"?
"A group typically defined on the basis of some cultural characteristic such as language, religion, traditions, and cultural practices."
What is an Ethnic Group? (ethnicity)