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| The Tendency to approach or withdraw from a racial group |
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| The denial of opportunities and equal rights to individuals and groups because of prejudice or for other arbitrary reasons |
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| Criminal offense committed because of the offender's bias against a race, religion, ethnic/national origin group, or sexual orientation group |
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| Any arbitrary police-initiated action based on race, ethnicity, or natural origin rather than a person's behavior |
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| The tendency to approach or withdraw from a racial group |
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| Unreliable, exaggerated generalizations about all members of a group that do not take individual differences into account |
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| Technique to measure social distance toward different racial and ethnic groups |
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| Racial or ethnic slurs, including derisive nicknames |
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| A person or group blamed irrationally for another person's or group's problems or difficulties |
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| An interactionist perspective stating that intergroup contact between people of equal status in noncompetitive circumstances will reduce prejudice |
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| Prejudice is influenced by social norms and situations that encourage or discourage the tolerance of minorities |
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| Authoritarian Personality |
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| a personality type likely to be prejudiced and to use others as scapegoats |
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| the tendency to assume that one's culture and way of life are superior to all others |
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| The principle that holds that each state is sovereign and has the right to order its own affairs without interference by the federal government |
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| The conscious experience of a negative discrepancy between legitimate expectations and present actualities |
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| A barrier to moving laterally in a business to positions that are more likely to lead to upward mobility |
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| Salaries, wages, and other money received |
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| An inclusive term encompassing all of a person's material assets, including land and other types of property |
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| Transfers of money, goods, or services that are not reported to the government |
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| The pattern of discrimination against people trying to buy homes in minority and racially changing neighborhoods |
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| The combination of current discrimination with past discrimination created by poor schools and menial jobs |
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| Efforts to ensure that hazardous substances are controlled so that all communities receive protection regardless of race or socioeconomics circumstances |
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| The male advantage experienced in occupation dominated by women |
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| The barrier that blocks the promotion of a qualified worker because of gender or minority membership |
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