Refers to socially constructed categories based on biological traits a society defines as important. A socially constructed category of people who share biologically transmitted traits that members of a society consider important.
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Ethnicity
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Refers to socially constructed categories based on cultural traits a society defines as important. Also a shared cultural heritage.
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Minority
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Any category of people distinguished by physical or cultural difference that a society sets apart and subordinates.
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Scapegoat Theory
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A person or category of people, typically with little power, whom people unfairly blame for their own troubles.
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Segregation
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The physical and social separation of categories of people.
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Institutional Prejudice
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Bias built into the operation of society's institutions.
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Institutional discrimination
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Bias built into the operation of society's institutions.
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Assimilation Theory
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The process by which minorities gradually adopt patterns of the dominant culture.
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Genocide
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The systematic killing of one category of people by another.
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Race refers to _____ considered important by a society; ethnicity refers to _____.
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BIOLOGICAL TRAITS, CULTURAL TRAITS.
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The largest minority category within the U.S is _____
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Hispanic
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Name the four states that have a minority majority
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Texas, Florida, California, Georgia
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Explain the social distance scale findings on prejudice
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most people would accept a minority between a neighbor & close friend around *1925* but in 2001 most people would accept a minority as family member by marriage
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While prejudice is a matter of _____, discrimination is a matter of _____.
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attitudes; action
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