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  2. Discrimination - Wikipedia

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    Under this approach, discrimination is defined as acts, practices, or policies that wrongfully impose a relative disadvantage or deprivation on persons based on their membership in a salient social group. [9] This is a comparative definition. An individual need not be actually harmed in order to be discriminated against.

  3. Institutionalized discrimination also exists in institutions aside from the government such as religion, education, and marriage among many other. Routines that encourage the selection of one individual over another, for instance in an employment situation, is a form of institutionalized discrimination. The phenomenon occurs unintentionally at ...

  4. Institutional discrimination - Wikipedia

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    Institutional discrimination is discriminatory treatment of an individual or group of individuals by institutions, through unequal consideration of members of subordinate groups. Societal discrimination is discrimination by society. These unfair and indirect methods of discrimination are often embedded in an institution's policies, procedures ...

  5. Institutional racism - Wikipedia

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    Institutional racism, also known as systemic racism, is a form of institutional discrimination based on race or ethnic group and can include policies and practices that exist throughout a whole society or organization that result in and support a continued unfair advantage to some people and unfair or harmful treatment of others.

  6. Discrimination in the United States - Wikipedia

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    Discrimination comprises "base or the basis of class or category without regard to individual merit, especially to show prejudice on the basis of ethnicity, gender, or a similar social factor". [1] This term is used to highlight the difference in treatment between members of different groups when one group is intentionally singled out and ...

  7. Social dominance theory - Wikipedia

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    Aggregated individual discrimination (ordinary discrimination) Aggregated institutional discrimination (by governmental and business institutions) State terrorism (e.g., police violence, death squads) Behavioural asymmetry [23] Deference–systematic outgroup favouritism (minorities favour members of dominant group)

  8. Trump's definition of 'male,' 'female' criticized by medical ...

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    Trump's executive order declares sex as "an individual's immutable biological classification as either male or female" and states that "gender identity" cannot be included in the definition of ...

  9. Structural discrimination - Wikipedia

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    Structural discrimination is a form of institutional discrimination against individuals of a given protected characteristic, such as race, gender, caste, which has the effect of restricting their opportunities.