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Reflections | |
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Preface | |
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About the Authors | |
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Introduction | |
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American Culture and Cultures | |
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Studying Diversity and Multiculturalism | |
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Culture | |
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Culture and Its Aspects | |
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Culture Is Learned | |
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Culture, Space, and Scale | |
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Culture Is Shared | |
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Culture Is Symbolic | |
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Culture and Nature | |
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Culture Is All-Encompassing | |
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Culture Is Integrated | |
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Culture and the Individual: Agency and Practice | |
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Culture Is Instrumental, Adaptive, and Maladaptive | |
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There Are Levels of Culture | |
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Ethnocentrism and Cultural Relativism | |
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Universality, Generality, and Particularity | |
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Particularity: Patterns of Culture | |
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Unifying Factors in Contemporary North American Culture | |
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American Pop, Civic, and Public Culture | |
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Mechanisms of Cultural Change | |
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The Uses of Culture | |
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Globalization and Identity | |
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Globalization and Identity Politics | |
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Trade and Finance | |
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Neoliberalism and Antiglobalization | |
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Multilocality and the Media | |
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Civil Society, NGOs, and Rights Movements | |
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Indigenous Peoples | |
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Identity in Indigenous Politics | |
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Diasporas and Postmodernity | |
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Agency | |
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The Multicultural Society | |
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The Power of Culture | |
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Conceptualizing Cultural Diversity | |
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Assimilation | |
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Pluralism | |
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Multiculturalism | |
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Theory of Multiculturalism | |
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Sociocultural Transformation | |
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Multiculturalism in the North American Mainstream | |
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The Centers of Cultural Production | |
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Agency and Resistance | |
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Identity Politics | |
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The Multicultural Paradox | |
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Multiculturalism: The Master Movement | |
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Critical Multiculturalism | |
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Ethnicity | |
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Ethnicity and Social Statuses | |
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Status Shifting | |
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Ethnic Groups, Nations, and Nationalities | |
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Nationalities and Imagined Communities | |
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Ethnic Tolerance and Accommodation | |
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Cultural Assimilation | |
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The Plural Society | |
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Multiculturalism and Ethnic Identity | |
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Roots of Ethnic Conflict | |
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Prejudice and Discrimination | |
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Chips in the Mosaic | |
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Aftermaths of Oppression | |
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Religion | |
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Church and State | |
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Politics and Religion | |
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Religion and Solidarity | |
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Ritualized Changes in Status and Identity | |
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Religious Diversity | |
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The World's Major Religions | |
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Protestant Values and the Rise of Capitalism | |
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Social Control | |
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Religion and Change | |
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New and Alternative Religious Movements | |
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Secular Religion | |
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Race: Its Biological Dimensions | |
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Race: A Discredited Concept in Biology | |
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Races Are Not Biologically Distinct | |
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Genetic Markers Don't Correlate with Phenotype | |
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Explanatory Approaches to Human Biological Diversity | |
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Explaining Skin Color | |
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Lactose Intolerance | |
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The Case for Cultural versus Biological Determination of Physical Attractiveness and Sports Abilities | |
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The Case for Cultural versus Biological Determination of Intelligence | |
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Testing and Affirmative Action | |
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Race: Its Social Construction | |
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Race and Racism | |
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Race, Ethnicity, and Culture | |
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The Cultural Construction of Race | |
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Hypodescent: Race in the United States | |
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Race in the Census | |
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Not Us: Race in Japan | |
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Phenotype and Fluidity: Race in Brazil | |
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Gender | |
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Sex and Gender | |
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Recurrent Gender Patterns | |
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Gender Roles and Gender Stratification | |
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Reduced Gender Stratification-Matrilineal, Matrilocal Societies | |
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Matriarchy | |
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Reduced Gender Stratification-Matrifocal Societies | |
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Increased Gender Stratification-Patrilineal-Patrilocal Societies | |
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Patriarchy and Violence | |
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Gender in Industrial Societies | |
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The Feminization of Poverty | |
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Work and Happiness | |
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Beyond Male and Female | |
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Sexual Orientation | |
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The Nature and Culture of Sexual Orientation | |
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Changing Patterns and Views of Sexual Orientation | |
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Varieties of Human Sexuality | |
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The Social Construction of Sexual Orientation | |
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Cross-Cultural Variation | |
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Bisexuality | |
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The Political Organization of Sexual Orientation | |
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Legal Protection of LGBT | |
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Gay Culture | |
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Age and Cohort | |
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Ages and Cohorts | |
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The Generation Gap | |
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An Aging Population | |
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The Aging Process | |
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Intergenerational Conflict | |
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The Gray and the Brown | |
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The Tea Party Movement | |
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The Social Construction of Childhood | |
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The Politics of Age and Aging | |
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Bodies, Fitness, and Health | |
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Culture and the Body | |
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Well and Sick Bodies | |
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People with Disabilities | |
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The ADA and Employment Rates | |
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Mental Health | |
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Diversity in Sickness and in Health | |
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Class | |
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Class in America | |
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Forms of Socioeconomic Stratification | |
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Industrial Stratification | |
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Poverty and Homelessness | |
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Closed Class Systems | |
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Domination, Hegemony, and Resistance | |
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Class and Values across Cultures | |
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Diversity within Social Categories | |
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Social Movements | |
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Places and Spaces | |
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Regional Diversity | |
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Geographic Mobility | |
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Cyberspace | |
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Cities and Urbanites | |
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Lifestyles and Small Towns | |
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The American Periphery | |
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The Income Gap by State | |
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Linguistic Diversity | |
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Linguistic Relativism | |
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Sociolinguistics: The Study of Linguistic Diversity | |
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Gender Speech Contrasts | |
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Stratification and Symbolic Domination | |
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Black English Vernacular (BEV), aka Ebonics | |
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Linguistic Diversity and Inequality | |
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Nativists and Relativists | |
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The Language of Power | |
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Families | |
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Changing North American Families | |
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All Sorts of Families | |
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Family and Work | |
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Media and the Family | |
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The Cult of Childhood "Success" | |
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Kinship and Class | |
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Family Diversity | |
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Conclusion | |
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Human Diversity, Culture, and Multiculturalism | |
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Using Culture to Build Humanity | |
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From Civil Rights to Human Rights | |
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Human Agency as a Prime Mover of Social Reform | |
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Glossary | |
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Bibliography | |
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Photo Credits | |
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Index | |