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14 Cards in this Set
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Race |
p. 320) a socially constructed category of people who share biologically transmitted traits that members of a society consider important
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Ethnicity
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p. 322) a shared cultural heritage
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Minority
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p. 322) any category of people distinguished by physical or cultural difference that a society sets apart and subordinates
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Prejudice
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p. 323) a rigid and unfair generalization about an entire category of people
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Stereotype
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p. 324) a simplified description applied to every person in some category of people
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Racism
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p. 326) the belief that one racial category is innately superior or inferior to another
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Scapegoat
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p. 326) a person or category of people, typically with little power, whom people unfairly blame for their own troubles
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Discrimination
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p. 328) unequal treatment of various categories of people
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Institutional Prejudice and Discrimination
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p. 328) bias built into the operation of society’s institutions
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Pluralism
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p. 328) a state in which people of all races and ethnicities are distinct but have equal social standing
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Assimilation
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p. 329) the process by which minorities gradually adopt patterns of the dominant culture
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Miscegenation
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p. 329) biological reproduction by partners of different racial categories
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Segregation
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p. 329) the physical and social separation of categories of people
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Genocide
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p. 329) the systematic killing of one category of people by another |