Race And Ethnicity Quiz#4

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Discrimination

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Is the denial of opportunities and equal rights to individuals and groups because of prejudice or other arbitrary reasons

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Absolute deprivation

Back 2

implies a fixed standard based on a minimum level of subsistence below which familes should not be expected to exist

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Hate crime

Back 3

When offenders are motivated to choose a vistim because of some characteristics eg. race, ethnicity, religion, sexual orientation or disability

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Relative deprivation

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Is the conscious experience of a negative discrepancy between legitimate expectations and present actualities

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Institutional discrimination

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is the denial of opportunities and equal rights to individuals and groups that results from the normal operations of a society

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Income

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salary, wages and other money recieved

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Wealth

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is a more inclusive term that includes all of a person's material assets, including land and other types of property

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Redlining

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the pattern of discrimination against people trying to buy homes in minority and racially changing neighborhoods. The race of the home seeker makes a difference

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Evironmental justice

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refers to the efforts to ensure that hazardous substances are controlled so that all communities recieve protection regardless of race or socioeconomical circumstance.

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Affirmative action

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Is the positive effort to recruit subordinate-group members, including women, for jobs, promotions and educational opportunities

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Reverse discrimination

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is an emotional term, it conjures up the notion that somehow women and minorities will subject With men in the US to the same treatment recieved by minorities during the last three centuries.

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Glass ceiling

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Refers to the barrier that blocks the promotion of a qualifies worker because of gender or minority membership

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Glass escalator

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refers to the White males advantage experienced in occupatoins dominated by women. Men are more likely to be advantaged when they move out of sex-typical jobs

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Glass walls

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means an invisible barrier that blocks the promotion of a qualified individual in a work environment because of the individual's gender, race, or ethnicity.