Soc Ch 9 Final

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Assimilation

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A process by which members of subordinate racial and ethnic groups become absorbed into the dominant culture,

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Authoritarian Personality

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a personaity type characcterized by excessive conformity, submissiveness to authority, intolerance, insecurity, a high level of superstition, a rigid, stereotypic thinking.

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Discrimination

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actions or practices of dominant-group members( or their representatives) that have a harmful effect on members of a subordinate group.

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Ethnic group

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a collection of people distinguished, by others or by themselves, primarily on the basis of cultural or nationality characteristics.

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Ethnic Pluralism

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the coexistence of a variety of distinct racial and ethnic groups with in one society.

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Gendered racism

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the interactive effect of racism and sexism on the exploitation of women of color

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Genocide

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the deliberate, systematic killing of an entire people or a nation

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individual discrimination

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behavior consisting of one on one acts by members of he dominant group that harm members of the subordinate group or their property.

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institutional discrimination

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the day to day practices of organizations and institutions that have a harmful impact on members of subordinate groups

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internal colonialism

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according to conflict theorists, a practice that occurs when members of a racial or ethnic group are conquered or colonized and forcibly placed under the economic and political control of he dominant group

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Perjudice

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a negative attitude based on faulty generalizations about members of selected racial, ethnic, or groups

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Race

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a category of people who have been singled out as inferior or superior, often on the basis of physical characteristic such as skin color, hair texture, and eye shape

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Racism

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a set of attitudes, beliefs, and practices that is used to justify the superior treatment of one racial or ethnic group and the inferior treatment of another racial or ethnic group

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Scapegoat

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a person or group that is incapable of offering resistance to the hostility or aggression of others.

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segregation

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the spatial and social separation of categories of people by race ethnicity, class, gender, and /or religion

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Dominant group

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a group that is advantaged and has superior resources and rights in a society

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Split labor market

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a term used to describe the division of the economy into two areas of employment

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Stereotypes

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over-generalizations about the appearance, behavior, or other characteristics of particular groups

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Subordinate group

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a group whose members, because of physical of cultural charctorists are disadvantaged and subjected to unequal treatment by the dominant group and who regard themselves as objects of collective discrimination

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Theory of racial formation

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the idea that actions of the government substantially define racial and ethnic relations in the U.S,