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14 Cards in this Set
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a socially constructed category of people who share biologically transmitted traits that members of a society consider important |
Race |
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a shared cultural heritage |
ethnicity |
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any category of people distinguished by physical or cultural difference that a society sets apart and subordinates |
minority |
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a rigid and unfair generalization about an entire category of people |
prejudice |
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a simplified description applied to every person in some category |
stereotype |
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the belief that one racial category is innately superior or inferior to another |
racism |
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a person or category of people, typically with little power, whom people unfairly blame for their own troubles |
scapegoat |
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unequal treatment of various categories of people |
discrimination |
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bias built into the operation of society's institutions |
institutional prejudice and discimination |
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a state in which people of all races and ethnicities are distinct but have equal social standing |
pluralism |
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the process by which minorities gradually adopt patterns of the dominant culture |
assimilation |
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biological reproduction by partners of different racial categories |
miscegenation |
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the physical and social separation of categories of people |
segregation |
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the systematic killing of one category of people by another |
genocide |
