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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 | |