SO 101 Study Guide - Quiz Guide: Incest Taboo, Incest, Exogamy
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Race: a group whose inherited physical characteristics distinguish it from other groups. Minority group: people who are singled out for unequal treatment and who regard themselves as objects of collective discrimination. Dominant group: the group with the most power, greatest privilege, and highest social status. Prejudice: an attitude or prejudging, usually in a negative way. Discrimination: an act of unfair treatment directed against an individual or a group. Individual- person to person or face to face discrimination; the negative treatment of people by other individuals. Institutional- negative treatment of a minority group that is built into a societies institutions; also called systematic discrimination ex: home mortgages and health care. Racism: prejudice and discrimination on the basis of race. Compartmentalize: to separate their acts of cruelty from their sense of being good and decent people: population transfer. Indirect: making life miserable for members of a minority that they leave voluntarily . Direct: when a dominant group expels a minority.
