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14 Cards in this Set
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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
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