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| race | a category of people who share inherited physical characteristics and who are perceived by others as being a distinct group |
| ethnicity | the set of cultural characteristics that distinguises one group from another group |
| ethnic group | individuals who share a common sense of identity |
| minority group | a category of people who share physical characteristics or cultural practices that result in the group being denied equal treatment |
| discrimination | the denial of equal treatment to individuals based on their group membership |
| prejudice | a unsupported generalization about a category of people |
| legal discrimination | is discrimination that is upheld by law |
| institutionalized discrimination | is discrimination that is an outgrowth of the structure of society |
| self-fulfilling prophecy | a prediction that results in behavior that makes the prediction come true |
| stereotype | a oversimplified, exaggerated, or unfavorable geneeralization about a category of people |
| scapegoating | the paractice of placing the blame for one's trouble on an innocent individual or group |
| assimilation | the blending of culturally distinct groups into a single group with a common culture and identity |
| cultural pluralism | policy that allows each group within society to keep |
| subjugation | the maintaining of control over a groupp through force |
| slavery | is the ownership of oner group of people by another group |
| segregation | is the pyhsical seperation of a minority group from the dominant group |
| de jure segregation | segregation based on laws |
| de facto segregation | segregation based on informal norms |
| genocide | when the goal of extermination is the intentional destruction of the entire targeted population |
| white ethnics | collective reference to immigrants from the predominantly catholic countries of Ireland, Italy, France, Poland, and Greececollective reference to immigrants from the predominantly catholic countries of Ireland, Italy, France, Poland, and Greece |
