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20 Cards in this Set
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assimilation
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Process by which members of subordinate groups adapt to and become absorbed by dominant culture
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authoritarian personality
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a personality characterizaed by rigid conformity to conventional expectations, insecurity, intolerance, sterotypical thinking, and submissiveness to authority
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cultural theories of prejudice
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explain prejudice as a learned behavior based upon an understanding of culturally desireable traits and characteristics.
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discrimination
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action that involves treating different categories or groups of people unequally
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ethnic groups
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recognized by themselves or others as a distinct group on the basis of social or cultural characteristics, often on the basis of language, ancestry, religion, or country or region of origin
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ethnic pluralism
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the equitable coexistence of a variety of different ethnic and racial groups within a society
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frustration-aggression hypothesis
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prejudice develops among people who are frustrated with their inability to achieve highly disred goals and respond with aggression toward others.
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genocide
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the systematic killing of one category of people by another.
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institutional discrimination
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the arrangements or practices in social institutions and their related organizations that tend to favor one category or group of people over others.
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majority group
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any group that enjoys more than its proportionate share of wealth, power, and prestige.
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minority group
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any group that is assigned an inferior position in society and receives less than its proportionate share of wealth, power and prestige
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prejudice
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a negative attitude about an entire category of people based upon irrational and rigid generalizations or stereotypes.
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race
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a socially constructed category of people who share physical traits that are socially defined as important.
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racism
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a form of prejudice involving the belief that some racial or ethnic groups are innately superior or inferior to others.
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scapegoat
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a person or category of people who possesses little power and are unfairly blamed for the difficulties experienced by others.
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segregation
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the social and physical seperation of categories of people by race, ethnicity, class, gender, or religion.
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social distance
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the extent to which people are willing or unwilling to interact with members of different ethnic or racial groups.
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sterotypes
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exaggerated beliefs associated with a category of people.
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Theodor Adorno
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explained prejudice as a personality trait found in individuals that possess an authoritarian personality
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Williams Julius Wilson
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Argued that class is now more important than race for understanding the access to valuable social resources such as jobs.
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