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a process by which member of a subordinate racial and ethnic groups become absorbed into the dominant culture (functionalist perspective) |
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| Authoritarian personality |
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| characterized by excessive conformity, sbumissiveness to authority, intolerance, insecurity, a high level of supersition and rigid, sterotypic thinking |
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| actions or practices of dominant group members (or their representatives) that have harmful impact on members of a subordinate group |
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| a collection of people distinguished by others or by themselves, primarily on the basis of cultural or nationality characteristics |
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| the coexistence of a variety of distinct racial and ethnic groups within one society |
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| The tendency to regard one's own culture and group as the standard, and thus superior, whereas all other groups are seen as inferior |
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| the deliberate, systematic killing an an entire people or nation |
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| a term used to describe the rules, procedures and practices that directly and deliberately prevent minorities from having full and equal involvement in society |
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| according to conflict theorists, a practice that occurs when members of a racial or ethnic group are conquered or colonized and forcibly placed under economic and political control of the dominant group |
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| majority (dominant) group |
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| an advantaged group that has superior resources and rights in a society |
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| minority (subordinate group) |
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| a disadvantaged group whose members, because of physical or cultural characteristics are subjected to unqual treatment by the dominant group and who regard themselves as objects of collective discrimination. |
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| subordinate racial or ethnic group gain acceptance in everyday social interaction with members of the dominant group |
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