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29 Cards in this Set
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Assimilation |
The process by which a minority individual or group takes on the characteristics of the dominant culture |
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Conquest |
The forcible subjugation of territory and people by military action |
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Culture of Prejudice |
The theory that prejudice is embedded in our culture |
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Discrimination |
Prejudiced action against a group of people |
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Dominant |
Can be used interchangeably with the term majority |
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Dominant group |
A group of people who have more power in a society than any of the subordinate groups |
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Ethical Relativism |
The idea that all cultures and all cultural practices have equal value |
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Ethnicity |
Shared culture, which may include heritage, language, religion, and more |
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Expulsion |
When a dominant group forces a subordinate group to leave a certain area or the country |
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Genocide |
the deliberate annihilation of a targeted (usually subordinate) group |
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Group-specific-rights |
Rights conferred on individuals by virtue of their membership in a group |
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Hybridity |
The process by which different racial and ethnic groups combine to create new or emergent cultural forms and practices |
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Institutional Racism |
When a societal system has developed with an embedded disenfranchisement of a group |
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Internal colonialism |
The process of uneven regional development by which a dominant group establishes control over existing populations within a country by maintaining segregation of ethnic and racial groups |
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intersection theory |
theory that suggests we cannot seperate the effects of race, class, gender, sexual orientation, and other attributes |
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Minority group |
any group of people who are singled out from others for differential and unequal treatment |
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multiculturalism |
the recognition of cultural and racial diversity and of the equality of different cultures |
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prejudice |
biased thought based on flawed assumptions about a group of people |
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racial profiling |
the selection of individuals for greater surveillance, policing, or treatment on the basis of racialized characteristics |
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racialization |
the social process by which certain social groups are marked for unequal treatment based on perceived physiological differences |
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racism |
a set of attitudes, beliefs, and practices used to justify the belief that one racial category is somehow superior or inferior to others |
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segregation |
the physical separation of two groups, particularly in residence, but also in workplace and social functions |
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settler society |
a society historically based on colonization through foreign settlement and displacement of aboriginal inhabitants |
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stereotypes |
oversimplified ideas about groups of people |
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strategy of the management of diversity |
the systematic methods used to resolve conflicts, or potential conflicts, between groups that arise based on perceived differences |
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subordinate |
can be used interchangeably with the term minority |
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subordinate group |
a group of people who have less power than the dominant group |
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white privilege |
the benefits people receive simply by being part of the dominant group |
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visible minority |
persons, other than aboriginal persons, who are non-caucasian in race or non-white in color |
