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SOCI1010 Chp 11
Introduction to Sociology Chapter 11: Race/Ethnicity, De More
Question | Answer |
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race | socially constructed category of people who share biologically transmitted traits that members of society consider important |
ethnicity | a shared cultural heritage |
minority | any category of people distinguished by a physical or cultural difference that a society sets apart and subordinates |
prejudice | rigid and unfair generalization about an entire category of people |
stereotype | a simplified description applied to every person in some category |
racism | a belief that one racial category is innately superior or inferior to another |
scapegoat | a person or category of people, typically with little power, whom other people blame unfairly for their own troubles |
discrimination | unequal treatment of various categories of people |
institutional prejudice and discrimination | bias built into the operation of society's institutions |
pluralism | a state in which people of all races and ethnicities are distinct but have equal social standing. |
assimilation | process by which minorites gradually adopt patterns of the dominant culture |
miscengenation | bilogical reproduction by partners of different racial categories |
segregation | physical and social seperation of categories of people |
genocide | systematic killing of one category of people by another |