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19 Cards in this Set
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Prejudice |
attitude judging a person on his or her group's real or imagined characteristics |
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Discrimination |
unfair treatment of people because of their group membership |
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Racial mixing |
scholars believe that we all belong to one race |
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Race |
social construct used to distinguish people in terms of one or more physical marker |
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Scapegoat |
disadvantaged person or category of people that blame others for their own problems |
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Ethnic group |
people who perceive cultural markers are deemed socially significant |
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Vertical mosiac |
highly ethically and radically stratified society |
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Symbolic ethnicity |
Nostalgic allegiance on culture to immigrant generation, not usually incorporated to everyday lives - love and pride for tradition |
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Racism |
visible characteristics of a group that indicates group inferiority and justifies discrimination |
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Institutional racism |
bias that is evident in social institutions, but not the larger group |
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Colonialism |
people from one country invading - takes political, cultural, and economic control over people from another country - native population disadvantaged |
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Internal colonialism |
one race or ethnic group controlling another within the same country |
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Expulsion |
forcible removal of population from territory claimed by another population |
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Genocide |
extermination of entire population |
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Conquest |
forcible capture of land and economic and political domination of inhabitants |
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Ethnic stratification |
inequality of fixed group memberships, ranking positions and differential rewards |
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Split labour market |
conflict between low wage workers of one race and high wage workers of another compete for the same jobs |
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Transnational communities |
boundaries extend between or among countries |
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Pluralism |
retention of racial and ethnic culture combined with equal access to basic social resources |
