Chapter 14: Race And Ethnicity

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Race

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p. 320) a socially constructed category of people who share biologically transmitted traits that members of a society consider important

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Ethnicity

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p. 322) a shared cultural heritage

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Minority

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p. 322) any category of people distinguished by physical or cultural difference that a society sets apart and subordinates

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Prejudice

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p. 323) a rigid and unfair generalization about an entire category of people

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Stereotype

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p. 324) a simplified description applied to every person in some category of people

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Racism

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p. 326) the belief that one racial category is innately superior or inferior to another

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Scapegoat

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p. 326) a person or category of people, typically with little power, whom people unfairly blame for their own troubles

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Discrimination

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p. 328) unequal treatment of various categories of people

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Institutional Prejudice and Discrimination

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p. 328) bias built into the operation of society’s institutions

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Pluralism

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p. 328) a state in which people of all races and ethnicities are distinct but have equal social standing

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Assimilation

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p. 329) the process by which minorities gradually adopt patterns of the dominant culture

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Miscegenation

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p. 329) biological reproduction by partners of different racial categories

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Segregation

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p. 329) the physical and social separation of categories of people

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Genocide

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p. 329) the systematic killing of one category of people by another