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Biological Determinism
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Using
biology to justify racism.
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Heteronormativity
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Ethnocide
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Cultural genocide. Elimination/suppression of culture rather than actual people
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Genocide
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Systematic
killing of a racial or cultural group
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Sapir-Whorf Theory
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Cultural and thought patterns are strongly influenced by the language one speaks
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Sociolinguistics
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Study of the effect of any and all aspects of society, including cultural norms, expectations, and context, on the way language is used.
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Global Political Economy
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State
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Popular Sovereignity
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Speech Communities
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Stronger bond. Embracing 'outsider' status. Sapir-Whorf Theory. Sociolinguistics.
Sense of belonging yet not static portrayals interpretative Ex: biyuti |
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Prescriptive vs Descriptive
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Prescriptive: enforcement of rules governing how a language ought to be used
Descriptive:objectively analyzing and describing how language is spoken (or how it was spoken in the past) by a group of people in a speech community one declares how language should be while the other declares how language is |
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Modernization Theory
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A unilineal theory economoical development along natural stages. theory summarize modern transformations of social life.
internal factors of the country. evolutionary theory that assumes that with help, "traditional" countries can develop in the same ways "modern" countries did. |
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Dependence theory
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Notion resources flow from poor and
underdeveloped states to wealthy states, enriching the
latter at the expense of the former. Central contention of
dependency theory that poor states are impoverished and rich enriched by the way poor integrated into "world system".
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