POSC 225 Lecture 6: 2:15
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Civil rights are the protection against unequal treatment that the government guarantees to all groups. Race: a social constructed classification of people based on their physical characteristics, especially skin color. Ethnicity: classification based on national origin or culture (people of different ethnicities are often the same race) Gender: refers to social classifications based on sex (gender can be fluid) Inequality: is when one group enjoys more political, social, or economic benefits than another group. Inequality of opportunity: a kind of inequality in which laws or official actions deny specific groups pf social, political, economic benefits that are available to other groups. Inequality of outcome: a form of inequality in which social and demographic forces not official laws or policies cause one group to enjoy more political, ,social, or economic benefits than another group. Segregation: a physical separation of a dominant group from a subordinate group. De jure segregation: a physical separation due to the law.
