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| negative and persistent judgement based on scant or incorrect information about people in a particular group; an unjustified prejudgement |
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| oversimplified generalized images of members of a particular group |
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| unfavorable treatment of people based on their membership on some ill-favored group |
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| institutional discrimination |
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| dicriminatory treatment of certain people that is built into a social system; individuals who carry out this type of discrimination may not be aware of themselves doing it |
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| sociologist who explained in detail the difference between a minority and dominant group |
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| group whose members are singled out from others in society for differential (worse) treatment owing to their physical or cultural characteristics |
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| the group in society with the most institutionalized power |
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| pyramiding effect of discrimination |
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| Feagin's term for the cumulative results of many racial slights and insults |
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| people who have common history and identity, shared customs, language, and, frequently, religion |
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| either the male or female division of a species |
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| sociologist who worked in New Guinea and introduced the idea that society may have shaped the physical and biological differences in what our society calls a man and woman |
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