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Zeitgeists

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The “spirit of the time” that can determine whether social programs are supported or not supported

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Consciousness groups

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The phenomenon in which members within a social identity group become aware of how their group identification impacts their position in society, and therefore come together to pursue collective action to advocate for their shared interests

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Activism

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Any action taken in effort to bring about second-order change to address an injustice in society

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population pyramid

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Provides a picture of a population age-sex composition

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Probability sampling

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Random saming, randomization

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non-probability sampling

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conveinent, non-random, using a survey or snowballing sample

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convenience sampling

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using a survey, the most convenient

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snowball sampling

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people are recruited by other participants

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primary deviance

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violations of social norms, but no contact with social control systems

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secondary deviance

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violations of social norms and contact with social control systems

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Swampscott conference

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the 1965 inaugural conference in Swampscott, Massachusetts that led to the creation of the field of Community Psychology

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needs assessment

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helps you determine what needs to be accomplished to reach your project goals. Informs a projects overall plan and approaches by helping identify target strategies and resources

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freedom movements

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Is any organized effort within a society to promote, attain, liberation or independence based on social, political, economic, religious, or other ideological grounds

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underpopulation

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A state in which a country’s population has declined to much to support its current economic state

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overpopulation

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a species population becomes larger than the carrying capacity of its environment

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self-fulfilling prophecy

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process that occurs when our expectations about others lead us to behave towards those others in a way that make our expectations become true

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victim blaming

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seeing people who suffer from a problem as deficient and responsible for that problem even though it results from social conditions

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Second order victim blaming

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the means are avaliable to you, you choose not to use them, so it is your fault you are in the situation. Use of success stories

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trauma tourism

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is a body of work that deals with historically significant sites and their transformation into tourist attractions

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mutual support group

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a process where people who share common experiences, situations or problems can offer each other a unique perspective that is not available from those who have not shared these experiences

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fundamental attribution error

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when we tend to overestimate the role of person factors and overlook the impact of sitations

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internal validity

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the extent to which observable measurements can be replicated

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external validity

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generalizability of the results to other samples or other settings

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covert racism

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people will deny racism exists, but still have a negative view. Subtle mistreatment, highlights there is a power difference without fully declaring it

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sampling frame

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is a list of things that draw a sample from, only list, material, or device that delimits, identifies and allows an access to the elements of the survey population

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overt racism

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obvious and intentional, says racial slur or actively discriminates

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institutional racism

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racism that is embedded into both social and political structures

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Marginalized

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a person, group, or concept that is treated as insignificant or peripheral

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privilege

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unearned advantages that individuals have based on membership in a dominant group

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four elements of sense of community

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group membership, group influence, group integration and fulfillment of needs, shared emotional connection with group members

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setting scripts

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predictable behaviours within a setting

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behaviour settings

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social systems in which prescribed behaviours unfold overtime

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social climate

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the ‘personality’ of a social setting

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diffusion of treatment

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the ‘spilling over’ of treatment effects to other groups

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ecological system

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individuals live and develop within a nested social system

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stakeholder

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a person, or a group that has an interest in a program, topic or organization

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