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16 Cards in this Set
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race
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people sharing certain inherited physical charactistics that are considered important within a society
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ethnic miniority
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group identified by cultural religious or national characteristics
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assimilation
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the blending or fusing of miniorit groups into the dominant society
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cultural pluralism
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desire of a group to maintain some sence of identify separate from the dominant group
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genocide
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the systematic effort to destroy an entire population
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subjugation
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process by which in a minority group is denied equal access to the benefits of a society
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de jure segregation
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denial of equal access based on the law
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de facto segregation
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deial of equal access based on everyday practice
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prejudice
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widely held negative attitudes toward a groups minority or majority and its individual members
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racism
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an extreme form of prejudice that assumes superiority of one group over others
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discrimination
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treatin people differently based on ethnicity race relgion or culture
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hate crime
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a criminal act motivated by prejudice
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stereoype
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a distorted exaggerated or oversimplified image applied to a category of people
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instiutionalized discrimination
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unfair practices that grow out of common behaviors and attitudes and that are a part of the structure of a society
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hidden unemployment
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unemploment that includes people not counted in the traditional unemployment categories
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underclass
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people typically unemployed who come from families that have been poor for generations
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