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Discuss how language may create and reinforce our perceptions about race and ethnicity by transmitting preconceived ideas about the superiority of one category of people over another.


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Social Control

Refers to the mechanisms, strategies, and practices employed by society to regulate individual behavior and maintain social order.

Groupthink

A behavior pattern observed in groups in which the need for unity or agreement leads to unwise or flawed decisions.

Deindividuation

A psychological state of decreased self-evaluation and decreased evaluation apprehension causing anti-normative and disinhibited behavior.

Self-restraint

The ability to control one's emotions, desires, or actions through one's own will.

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