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Sociology
Chaper 10
| Term | Definition |
|---|---|
| racial group | people who share visible physical characteristics that members of a society consider socially important |
| ethnic group | people who identify with a common national origin or cultural heritage |
| racial-ethnic group | people who have distinctive physical and cultural characteristics |
| dominant group | a physically or culturally distinctive group that has the most economic and political power, the greatest privileges, and the highest social status |
| minority | people who may be treated differently and unequally because of their physical, cultural, or other characteristics |
| genocide | the system effort to kill all members of a particular ethnic, religious, political, racial, or national group |
| segregation | physical and social separation of dominant and minority groups |
| acculturation | the process of adopting the language, values, beliefs, and other characteristics of the host culture |
| assimilation | conforming to the dominate groups culture, adopting its language and values, and intermarrying with that group |
| pluralism | minority groups maintain many aspects of their original culture while living peacefully with the host culture |
| racism | beliefs that one's own racial group is inherently superior to other groups |
| prejudice | an attitude that prejudges people, usually in a negative way |
| stereotype | an oversimplified or exaggerated generalization about a group or people |
| scapegoats | individuals or groups whom people blame for their own problems or shortcomings |
| discrimination | behavior that treats people unequally because of some characteristic |
| individual discrimination | unequal treatment on a one-to-one basis |
| institutional discrimination | unequal treatment because of a society's everyday law's, policies, practices, and customs |
| gender racism | the overlapping and cumulative effects of inequality due to racism and sexism |
| contact hypothesis | posits that the more people get to know members of a minority group personally, the less likely they are to be prejudice agains that group |
| miscegenation | marriage or sexual relations between a man and a woman of different races |
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