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| In general, the belief that race is a primary determinant of human traits and capacities and that racial differences produce an inherent superiority of a particular race. Interpersonal, Systemic, and Interpersonal. |
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| Ethnocentrism is the tendency to believe that one's ethnic or cultural group is centrally important, and that all other groups are measured in relation to one's own. The tendency to look at the world primarily from the perspective of one's own culture. |
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| A commonly held public belief about specific social groups, or types of individuals. A conventional, formulaic, and oversimplified conception, opinion, or image. |
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| Term referring to the treatment taken toward or against a person of a certain group in consideration based solely on class or category. |
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| Portion of the Fourteenth Amendment to the U.S. Constitution that prohibits discrimination by state government institutions. The clause grants all people "equal protection of the laws," which means that the states must apply the law equally and cannot give preference to one person or class of persons over another. |
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| The ideology that one sex is superior to the other. |
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| Fear of and prejudice against homosexuality |
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| Living in or characteristic of farming or country life. |
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| Relating to or concerned with a city or densely populated area. |
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| A residential district located on the outskirts of a city. |
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| The sociologic and demographic term denoting a trend wherein whites flee urban communities as the “minority population” increases, and move to other places like commuter towns. |
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| The process of renewal and rebuilding accompanying the influx of middle class or affluent people into deteriorating areas that often displaces earlier usually poorer residents. |
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| Are matters which directly or indirectly affect many or all members of a society and are considered to be problems, controversies related to moral values, or both. |
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