Race
Ethnicity
Discrimination
Minority Group
Prejudice
100
Category of people who share physical characteristics.
What is race?
100
The set of cultural characteristics that distinguishes one group from another.
What is ethnicity?
100
The denial of equal treatment to individuals based on their group membership.
What is discrimination?
100
A group of people that are singled out and unequally treated.
What is minority group?
100
Unsupported generalization about a category of people.
What is prejudice?
200
Three racial groups that scholars have historically placed scholar into.
What is Caucasoid, Mongoloid, and Negroid?
200
People who share a common cultural background and a common sense of identity.
What is ethnic group?
200
Upheld by law
What is legal discrimination?
200
Related to the group's unequal standing in their society.
What is minority?
200
The kind of prejudice that sociologists generally focus on.
What is negative?
300
Characterized by fair skin and straight or wavy hair.
What is Caucasoid?
300
Ethnicity is based on this.
What is culture?
300
An outgrowth of the structure of a society.
What is institutionalized discrimination?
300
The group that treats the minority group unequal.
What is dominant group?
300
An oversimplified, exaggerated, or unfavorable generalization about a group of people.
What is stereotype?
400
Yellowish or brownish skin and distinctive folds on the eyelids.
What is Mongoloid?
400
Share a common ethnic heritage that includes particular foods, music, form of speech, and cultural traits.
What is African American?
400
Two forms of societal discrimination.
What is legal discrimination and institutionalized discrimination?
400
The type of status that the members in the group have.
What is ascribed status?
400
A prediction that results in behavior that makes the prediction come true.
What is self-fulfilling prophecy?
500
Distinguished by dark skin and tightly curled hair.
What is Negroid?
500
Ethnicity is generally based on national origin, religion, language, customs, and values.
What is cultural characteristics?
500
This system in South Africa is an example of legal discrimination.
What is apartheid?
500
Members of a minority group tend to practice this, which is a marriage within the group.
What is endogamy?
500
The belief that one's own race or ethnic group is naturally superior to others.
What is racism?
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