Soc. 10

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Race

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A group of people who share physical characteristics, such as skin color and facial features, that are passed on through reproduction.

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Ethnic group

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A group of people who identify with a common national origin or cultural heritage that includes language, geographical Roots, food, Customs, traditions, and or religion.

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Racial ethnic group

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A group of people who have both distinctive physical and cultural characteristics.

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Dominant group

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Any physically or culturally distinctive group that has the most economic and political power, the greatest Privileges, and the highest social status.

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Apartheid

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A formal system of racial segregation.

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Minority

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A group of people who may be subject to differential and unequal treatment because of their physical, cultural, or other characteristics, such as gender, sexual orientation, religion, ethnicity, or skin colored.

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Genocide

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The systematic effort to kill all members of a particular ethnic, religious, political, racial, or National Group.

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Internal colonialism

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The unequal treatment and subordinate of groups within a country

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Segregation

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The physical and social separation of dominant and minority groups.

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Assimilation

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The process of conforming to the culture of the dominant group be adopting its language in values and intermarrying with that group.

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Pluralism

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Minority groups retain their culture but have equal social standing in a society.

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Racism

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A set of beliefs that one's own racial group is naturally Superior to other groups.

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Prejudice

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An attitude, positive or negative, for people because of their group membership.

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Stereotype

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An oversimplified or exaggerated generalization about a category of people.

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Ethnocentrism

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The belief that one's own culture, Society, or group is inherently Superior to others.

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Scapegoats

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Individuals or groups home people blame for their own problems or shortcomings.

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Discrimination

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Any act that treats people on equally or unfairly because of their group membership.

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Individual discrimination

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Harmful action directed intentionally, on a one-to-one basis, by a member of a dominant group against a member of a minority group.

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Institutional discrimination

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Unequal treatment and opportunities that members of a minority groups experience as a result of the everyday operations of society's laws, rules, policies, practices, and customs.

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Gendered racism

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The combined and cumulative effects of inequality due to racism and sexism.

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Contact hypothesis

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The idea that the more people get to know members of a minority group personally, the less likely they are to be prejudiced against that group.

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Miscegenation

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Marriage or sexual relations between a man and a woman of different races.