Sociology Chapter 9 Vocabulary

Group of people with physical or cultural traits different from those of the dominant group of the society

• minority

• underclass

• stereotype

• racism

unfair practices that grow out of common behaviors & attitudes that are part of the structure of society

• racism

• assimilation

• prejudice

• institutionalized discrimination

widely held negative attitudes toward a group & its individual members

• prejudice

• assimilation

• racism

• hate crime

blending or fusing of minority groups into the dominant society

• assimilation

• subjugation

• genocide

• ethnic minority

process by which a minority group is denied equal access to the benefits of a society

• subjugation

• assimilation

• discrimination

• cultural pluralism

expectation that leads to behavior that causes the expectation to become reality

• racism

• institutionalized discrimination

• self-fulfilling prophecy

• de jure segregation

Treating people differently based on ethnicity, race, religion or culture

• discrimination

• racism

• hate crime

• genocide

people sharing certain inherited physical traits that are considered importnat within a society

• race

• genocide

• stereotype

• prejudice

Desire of a group to maintain some sense of identity separate from the dominant group

• hidden unemployment

• cultural pluralism

• underclass

• de facto segregation

unemployment that includes people not counted in the traditional unemployment categories

• assimilation

• stereotype

• racism

• hidden unemployment