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programs designed to seek out members of minority groups for positions from which they had previously been excluded, thereby seeking to overcome institutional racism.
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affirmative action
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skin color prejudice within an ethno-racial group, most notably between light-skinned and dark-skinned blacks.
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colorism
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unfair treatment of people based on some social characteristic, such as race, ethnicity, or sex
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discrimination
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Sense of community that derives from the cultural heritage shared by a category of people with common ancestry
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ethnicity
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laws, customs, and practices, that systematically reflect and produce racial and ethnic inequalities in a society, whether or not the individuals maintaining these laws, customs, and practices have racist intentions.
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institutional racism
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general terms applied to diverse subgroups that are assumed to have something in common
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panethnic labels
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individual expression of racist attitudes or behaviors.
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personal racism
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rigidly held, unfavorable attitudes, beliefs, and feelings about members of a different group, based on a social characteristic such as race, ethnicity, or gender.
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prejudice
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form of racism expressed subtly and indirectly through feelings of discomfort, uneasiness, and fear, which motivate avoidance rather than blatant discrimination.
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quiet racism
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category of people labeled and treated as similar bc of some allegedly common biological traits, such as skin color, texture of hair, and shape of eyes.
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race
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tendency for the race of a society's majority to be so obvious, normative, and unremarkable that it becomes, for all intents and purposes, invisible.
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racial transparency
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belief that humans are subdivided into distinct groups that are different in their social behavior and innate capacities and that can be ranked as superior or inferior
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racism
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overgeneralized belief that a certain trait, behavior, or attitude characterizes all members of some identifiable group
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stereotype
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subordination of women that is part of the everyday workings of economics, law, politics, and other social institutions.
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institutional sexism
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female-dominated society, which gives higher prestige and value to women than to men.
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matriarchy
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practice of treating people as objects
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objectification
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male-dominated society in which cultural beliefs and values give higher prestige and value to men than to women
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patriarchy
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principle that women and men who perform jobs that are of equal value to society and that require equal training ought to be paid equally.
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pay equity
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system of beliefs that asserts the inferiority of one sex and justifies gender-based inequality
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sexism
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population's balance of old and young people
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age structure
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set of people who were born during the same era and who face similar societal circumstances brought about by their shared position in the overall age structure of the population.
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birth cohort
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phenomenon in which members of a birth cohort tend to experience a particular life course event or rite of passage-puberty, marriage, childbearing, graduation, entry into the workforce, death-at roughly the same time.
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cohort effect
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sociologist who studies trends in population characteristics
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demographer
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movement of populations from one geographic area to another
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migration
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phenomenon in which a historical event or major social trend contributes to the unique shape and outlook of a birth cohort
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period effect
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process by which people leave rural areas and begin to concentrate in large cities
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urbanization
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