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19 Cards in this Set
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A population that differs from others in the frequency of certain hereditary traits.
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biological race
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Categories of people set apart from others because of socially defined physical characteristics.
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races
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Statuses based on cultural heritage and shared "feelings of peoplehood"
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ethnicity
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A category of people set apart from others because of distinctive customs and lifestyles
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ethnic group
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A category of people who are set apart for unequal treatment because of physical or cultural characteristics.
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minority group
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Preconceived judgments about a category of people.
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prejudice
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Beliefs and attitudes that one racial category is inherently superior or inferior to another
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racism
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A weak, convenient, and socially approved target.
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scapegoat
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The tendency to judge the customs of others according to one's own cultural standards.
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ethnocentrism
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Static and oversimplified ideas about a group or a social category.
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stereotypes
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An economic situation in which wo groups of workers are willing to do the same work for different wages.
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split-labor market
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Unequal treatment of people because of their group membership.
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discrimination
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Attacks on minority group members, from social slights and insults to murder.
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personal discrimination
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Minority group members are denied lawful access to public institutions, jobs, housing, and social rewards.
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legal discrimination
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When racial andethnic groups cooperate while still retaining their distinctive identities and lifestyles
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cultural pluralism
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A process in which minority groups lose their distinctive identities and conform to cultural patterns of the dominant group.
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assimilation
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Physical or social exclusion of minority groups from dominant group activities.
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segregation
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Deliberate and systematic elimination of minority group members.
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genocide
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Unequal treatment of a group that is deeply embedded in social institutions.
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institutional discrimination
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