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29 Cards in this Set
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a category of indiciduals labeled and treated as similar because of common inborn biological traits
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race
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an in herited and permanent biological characteristic that can easily be used to divide people into mutualy exclusive groups
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races
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exclusive groups =?
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races
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how people are put together, not biologically
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ethnicity
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refers to the non-biological traits such as shared ancestry, culture, history, laguage, patterns of behavior, and beliefs
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ethnicity
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unique cultural traits such as language, clothing, holidays, or religious practices, a sense of community, a feeling of ethnocentrism, ascribed membership from birth, territoriality
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characteristics of ethnic groups
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socioogist are concerned with race not wtih biology but as a what?
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social category
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means not distinct (racial categories), society determines it
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social construction
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socially created and thus inhabited, transformed, applied, and destroyed by people
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racial categories
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people are tied together by shared experience of being identified by others as members of that group and not necessarliy because of shared physical characteristics
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construction of race
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social and political constructs created as means of categorizing groups of people who shared certain physical and/or social traits defined as inferior from those who share certain physical and/or social traits defined as superior
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minority and majority groups
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any category of people having recgnizable racial or ethnic traits that place it in a position of restricted power and inferior status so that its members suffer limited opportunities and rewards
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minority
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category or people within a society who possess distinct physical or cultural characteristics and maintain superior power ad resources
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majority
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dont think about your race that much, not an attribute
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racial transparency
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term often times used to describe the unique aspects of how societies view either the racial or ethnic majority
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racial transparency
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the ____ enjoy the luxury of racial transparency or "having no color"
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majority
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the over generalized belief that a certain trait, behavior, or attitude characterizes all members of some identifiable group
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stereotypes
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universal aspect of human thought
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stereotypes
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bad stereotypes of ethnic groups
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prejudice
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when stereotypes are the basis for a set of rigidly held, unfavorable attitudes, beliefs and feelings about members of a racial or ethnic group
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prejudice
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the unfair treatment of people based on some social characteristic
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discrimination
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the belief that humans are subdivided into distinct groups so different in their social behavior and mental and physical capacities that they can be ranked as superior or inferior
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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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racism
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the feelings common to quiet racism are not hate or hostility but discomfort, uneasiness, and sometimes fear, which tend to motivate quiet avoidance rather than outright negative acts
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quiet racism
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consists of established laws, customs, and practices that systematically reflect and produce racial inequlities in society, whether or not the individuals maintaining these practices have racist intentions
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institutional racism
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the primary means by which racism is maintained
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institutional racism
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residentially, who is more integrated... north or south?
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south
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african american students and Latino students are more or less isolated from white students today than they were how many years ago?
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more; 30
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schools in poor commnities lack the financial and therefore education resources that schools in more affluent communites have
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racial inequality in the educational system
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