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| A category of people treated as distinct on account of physical characteristics to which social importance has been assigned. |
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| A category whose members are thought to share a common origin and to share important elements of common culture. |
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Social construction
of race and ethnicity
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| The process through which a culture defines what constitutes a race or an ethnic group |
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| Refers to the disproportionately large number of health and environmental risks that minorities face daily in their neighborhoods and workplaces. |
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| A group that is culturally, economically, and politically dominant. |
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| A group that is culturally, economically, and politically subordinate. |
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| Occurs when two groups coexist as seperate cultures in the same society. |
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| Exists when a minority group is fully a part of the institutions and social life of a society and belonging to a minority group no longer affects individuals' social position. |
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| The degree of intimacy and equality in relationships between two groups. |
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| An irrational, negative attitude toward a category of people |
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| The belief that inherited physical characteristics associated with racial groups determine individuals' abilities and charecteristics and provide a legitimate basis for unequal treatment. |
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| The tendency to be submissive to those in authority, coupled with an aggressive and negative attitude toward those lower in status. |
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| When people or groups who are blocked in their own goal attainment blame others for thair failures |
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| The unequal treatment of individuals on the basis of their membership in categories. |
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| The physical seperation of minority- and majority- group members |
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| When normal operation of apparently neutral processes systematically produces unequal results for majority and minority groups |
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| Having low status on two differnt dimensions of stratification |
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| A biological charecteristic, male or female. |
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| The expected dispositions and behaviors that cultures assign to each sex |
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| The rights and obligations that are normative for men and women in a particular culture. |
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| A belief that men and women have biologically different capacities and that these form a legitimate basis for unequal treatment. |
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| Consists of unwelcome sexual advances, requests for sexual favors, or other verbal or physical conduct of a sexual nature. |
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| People who prefer sexual and romantic relationships with members of their own sex. |
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| Individuals whose sex or sexual identity is not definitively male or female. |
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