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22 Cards in this Set
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is any category of people distinguished by physical or cultural difference that a society sets apart and subordinates.
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Minority
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is a rigid and unfair generalization about an entire category of people.
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Prejudice
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is an exaggerated description applied to every person in some category.
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Stereotype
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is the belief that one racial category is innately superior or inferior to another.
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Racism
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is a person or category of people, typically with little power, whom people unfairly blame for their own troubles.
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Scapegoat
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is treating various categories of people unequally.
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Discrimination
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is the process by which minorities gradually adopt patterns of the dominant culture.
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Assimilation
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is the physical and social separation of categories of people.
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Segregation
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is the systematic killing of one category of people by another.
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Genocide
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is activity involving a large number of people, often spontaneous, and sometimes controversial.
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Collective behavior
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is a large number of people whose minimal interaction occurs in the absence of well-defined and conventional norms.
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Collectivity
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is a highly emotional crowd that pursues a violent or destructive goal.
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Mob
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is a social eruption that is highly emotional, violent, and undirected.
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Riot
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is unsubstaniated information people spread informally, often by word of mouth.
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Rumor
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is information presented with the intention of shaping public opinion.
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Propaganda
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is a form of localized collective behavior by which people react to a threat or other stimulus with irrational, frantic, and often self-destructive behavior.
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Panic
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is a form of dispersed collective behavior by which people react to a real or imagined event with irrational and even frantic fear.
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Mass hysteria or moral panic
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is an organized activity that encourages or discourages social change.
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Social movement
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is a perceived disadvantage arising from some specific comparison.
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Relative deprivation
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Structural functionalism
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Émile Durkheim
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Symbolic interactionism
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Max Weber
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Social conflict
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Karl Marx
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