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Chap 3 nad 10
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Sociology
Undergraduate 2
09/21/2010

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genocide
Definition
This is the systematic effort to kill all members of a particular ethnic political religious group
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segregation
Definition
the physical and social seperation pf dominot and minority groups
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dominant group
Definition
any physically or culturally distinctive group that has the most economic and political power
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apartheid
Definition
formal system of racial segregation
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discrimination
Definition
any act that treats poeple unequally or unfairly because of there group membership
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sterotype
Definition
exagerated generlization about a category of people
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prejudice
Definition
an attitude postive or negative toward people becuase of there group membership
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racism
Definition
set of beliefs that ones own racial group is supeior
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etnocentrism
Definition
belief that ones own culture, society, group is superior to others
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contact hypothesis
Definition
idea that the moer people get to know members of a minority group personally, the less likely they are to be prejudice
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gendered racism
Definition
combined effets of inequality due to racism and sexism
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society
Definition
a group of people that has lived and worked together long enough to become an organzied popultion and think of themselves as a social unit
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language
Definition
a system of shared symbols and enables people to communicate with one another
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symbol
Definition
anything that stands for somthing else
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culture
Definition
learned and shared behaviors, attitudes, vales that characterize a particular group or socitey
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culture shock
Definition
sense of confusion that accompanies exposure to an unfamiliar way of life or environment
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subculture
Definition
a group of people whose distintive ways of thinking and feeling differ somwhat from those of a larger society
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ethnocentrism
Definition
belief that ones cultre and way of life is supirior to those of otehr gruops
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counter culture
Definition
a group or catergory of poeple who deliberatly oppsose and reject some of the basic beliefes values norms of the dominant culture
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