Sociology 201 Chapter 7

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assimilation

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those processes whereby groups with distinctive identities become culturally and socially fused

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discrimination

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the arbitrary denial of priveilege, prestige, and power to members of a minority group, whose qualifications are equal to those of the dominant group

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environmental racism

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the practice of deliberately locating incinerators and other types of hazardous waste facilities in or next o minority communities

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ethnic groups

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groups identified chiefly on cultural grounds- language, religion, folk practices, dress, gestures, mannerisms

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gatekeeping

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the decision-making process whereby people are admitted to offices and positions of privilege prestige and power within a society

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genocide

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the deliberate and systematic extermination of a racial or ethnic group

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institutional discrimination

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the functioning of the institutions of society in a way that produces unequal outcomes for different groups

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minority group

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a racially or culturally self- conscious population, with hereditary membership and a high degree of in-group marriage, which suffers oppression, at the hands of a dominant segment of a nation state

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pluralism

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a situation where diverse groups coexist side by side and mutually accommodate themselves to their differences

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prejudice

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attitudes of aversion and hostility toward the members of a group simply because they belong to it and hence are presumed to have the objectionable qualities ascribed to it

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race

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a population that differs from other populations in the incidence of various hereditary traits

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racism

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the belief teh some racial groups are naturally superior and other are inferior

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split labor market

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an economic arena in which large differences exist in the price of labor at the same occupational level

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symbolic racism

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a form of racism in which whites feel that blacks are too aggressive, do not play by the rules and have negative characteristics