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| is a group of people with perceived unique biological and physical characteristics. |
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| meaning that we are culturally socialized to define race in biological terms |
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is an ideology that considers a group's physical characteristics to be causally related to inferiority or superiority.
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claims that if there is one drop of another race's blood (mostly targeted toward Black blood) then you are tainted by it.
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consists of people who share a common orientation toward the world, who develop a sense of people-hood, and who are perceived by others as having distinctive cultural elements such as religion, language, traditions, and heritage.
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| or very similar cultural traits, among all U.S. Hispanics is a mistake. The same mistake is made when people classify all U.S. Whites as being homogeneous. But, there is a reason that Hispanic is an important concept. Basically, it identifies a category of sub-cultures within the mainstream U.S. population of Spanish-speaking members (albeit a very diverse collective). |
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is one that is disadvantaged in terms of political, economic, and cultural power. U.S. minority groups were originally Native Americans and Blacks, but included Irish, Catholics, and many other non-Protestant and Non-White groups
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| is the group that is politically, economically, and culturally dominant. The dominant group does not always have to be the most populous group in society. |
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was when South African formalized separateness between Blacks and Whites, mandating White supremacy and privileged treatment between 1948 and 1990. Apartheid was broken apart by the combined international efforts of other nations who put economic and political pressure on the South African Government.
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| is the purposeful mistreatment of minority group members that yields them geographically part of the society while simultaneously being functionally left out of most of its opportunities. Marginalization often results in material deprivation and exclusion. Most non-Anglo Saxon groups have experienced some level of marginalization in US history. |
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| is a prejudgement of someone based on specific characteristics. It is attitudinal. |
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| refers to our perceptions and beliefs and is based on logical and rational thoughts. |
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| cognitive level of prejudice |
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| refers to prejudiced feelings which are aroused by expression or thoughts. |
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| The emotional level of prejudice |
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| is a predisposition to act in favor of or against certain groups.[i] At the cognitive level prejudice, thoughts are the vehicle for carrying the prejudice. Stereotypes go hand in hand with this level. |
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The action-orientation level of prejudice
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| are broad generalizations about a category of people who are assumed to have positive or negative traits common to every member of that group. |
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| is the perception of not being the rightful beneficiary of something a person feels entitled to receive. |
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| s the human cognitive process of storing and retrieving information in sections of our memory that are highly associated with one another. For example, read this list: awake, dream, snore, bed, eat, slumber, sound, wake, and night. |
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| is learning prejudice from people we look up to (family, relatives, teachers). |
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| Socialization of prejudice |
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occurs when prejudice is built into the group, community, and social institutional components of society. This was the case when Blacks and Whites were segregated in their churches, schools, workplaces, and other social environments. Few questioned it because it appeared to be part of the world-taken-for-granted. |
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| Social structure origin of prejudice |
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occurs when members of one group feel threatened and or deprived by members of another group for limited resources. This ties in well with the concept of relative deprivation. When groups of people feel that they are losing at the expense of other groups’ gains, it breeds and fuels competitive hostility at numerous levels |
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| competition origin of prejudice |
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| is the dependence on others for support in order to be able to succeed |
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| is legalized discrimination which is typically built into the social structure |
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| is the actual experience of members of society with discrimination. |
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| are those who are prejudiced and do discriminate |
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| are prejudiced but don’t discriminate. |
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| not prejudiced but do discriminate. Why? These people tend to be those who go along with the crowd or obey orders |
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| institutional discriminators |
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| , part of the system, accepted by society’s members. |
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| are perpetrated by individuals who attack others based on their own intense feelings of bias and bigotry. |
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tend to commit hate crimes with peer group members but do not belong to a hate group
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are extremely violent and aggressive (typically hate group members) |
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ground their attack on a perceived transgression, such as an insult, interracial dating, or a neighborhood integration.
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