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Majority–minority relations
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The list Majority–minority relations includes
Ethnic group, Biculturalism, Inclusion (disability rights), Whiteshift and Minoritarianism.
The list consists of 50 members
and 30 sublists.
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Black Sheep
Idiom for oddness or disreputability
Overview: In the English language, black sheep is an idiom used to describe an odd or disreputable member of a group, especially within a family. The term has typically been given negative implications, implying ...
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Management
Coordinating the efforts of people
Overview: Management (or managing) is the administration of an organization, whether it is a business, a not-for-profit organization, or government body. Management includes the activities of setting the strategy ... 0
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Agent of influence
A type of foreign agentOverview: An agent of influence is an agent of some stature who uses his or her position to influence public opinion or decision making to produce results beneficial to the country whose intelligence service operates ...Occupation: Spy 0
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Peer pressure
Affecting peers to change and follow the influencers
Overview: Peer pressure (or social pressure) is the direct influence on people by peers, or the effect on an individual who gets encouraged to follow their peers by changing their attitudes, values or behaviors ... 0
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Elite
Group or class of persons enjoying superior intellectual, social or economic status
Overview: In political and sociological theory, the elite (French élite, from Latin eligere, to select or to sort out) are a small group of powerful people who hold a disproportionate amount of wealth, privilege ... 0
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Underdog
A person or group in a competition that is expected to lose
Overview: An underdog is a person or group in a competition, usually in sports and creative works, who is popularly expected to lose. The party, team, or individual expected to win is called the favorite or top ... 0
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Ethnic group
Socially defined category of people who identify with each other
Overview: An ethnic group, a people group, a people, or an ethnicity, is a category of people who identify with each other, usually on the basis of a presumed common genealogy or ancestry or on similarities such ... 0
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Winn Kelly Brooks
American researcher and scholarOverview: Winn Kelly Brooks (formerly Virginia Rae Brooks; December 24, 1938 – October 7, 2008) was an American researcher and scholar in the field of minority stress theory. She is recognized as a pioneer of the ... 0
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Social privilege
Social concept that special rights or advantages are available only to a particular person or group of peopleOverview: Social privilege is a special, unearned advantage or entitlement, used to one's own benefit or to the detriment of others; often, the groups that benefit from it are unaware of it. These groups can be ... 0
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Dominant minority
Minority group that holds a disproportionate amount of powerOverview: A dominant minority, also called elite dominance is a minority group that has overwhelming political, economic, or cultural dominance in a country, despite representing a small fraction of the overall ... 0
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White privilege
Societal privilege based on skin lightnessOverview: White privilege, or white skin privilege, is the societal privilege that benefits white people over non-white people in some societies, particularly if they are otherwise under the same social, political ... 0
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Mobbing
Bullying of an individual by a group
Overview: Mobbing, as a sociological term, means bullying of an individual by a group, in any context, such as a family, peer group, school, workplace, neighborhood, community, or online. 0
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Communitarianism
Political philosophy
Overview: Communitarianism is a philosophy that emphasizes the connection between the individual and the community. Its overriding philosophy is based upon the belief that a person's social identity and personality ... 0
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Social influence
Alteration of attitudes and behaviors based on outside influencesOverview: Social influence refers to the way in which individuals change their behavior to meet the demands of a social environment. It takes many forms and can be seen in conformity, socialization, peer pressure ... 0
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Socialization
Lifelong process of inheriting and disseminating norms, customs and ideologies
Overview: In sociology, socialization is the process of internalizing the norms and ideologies of society. Socialization encompasses both learning and teaching and is thus "the means by which social and cultural ... 0
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Scapegoat
Animal which is ritually burdened
Overview: In the Bible, a scapegoat is an animal that is ritually burdened with the sins of others, and then driven away. The concept first appears in Leviticus, in which a goat is designated to be cast into the ... 0
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Initiation
Rite-of-passage ceremony
Overview: Initiation is a rite of passage marking entrance or acceptance into a group or society. It could also be a formal admission to adulthood in a community or one of its formal components. In an extended sense ... 0
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English-medium education
Medium of instructionOverview: An English-medium education system is one that uses English as the primary medium of instruction—particularly where English is not the mother tongue of the students. 0
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Oppression
malicious or unjust treatment or exercise of power
Overview: Oppression refers to a malicious and harmful pattern of unjust treatment or control which is practiced by a regime or a societal group. Oppression may be overt or covert, depending how it is practiced ... 0
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Empowerment
Autonomy and self-determination in people and communities
Overview: Empowerment is a set of measures designed to increase the degree of autonomy and self-determination in people and in communities in order to enable them to represent their interests in a responsible and ... 0
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