Editing Tokenism (section)

{{Short description|Making a perfunctory or symbolic effort towards including minority groups}}
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In sociology, '''tokenism''' is the social practice of making a perfunctory and symbolic effort towards the equitable [[Inclusion (value and practice)|inclusion]] of members of a [[minority group]], especially by recruiting people from under-represented social-minority groups in order for the organization to give the public appearance of [[Racial equality|racial]] and [[gender equality]], usually within a workplace, government, or a school.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.oxforddictionaries.com/us/definition/american_english/tokenism|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130424013423/http://oxforddictionaries.com/us/definition/american_english/tokenism|url-status=dead|archive-date=April 24, 2013|title=tokenism: definition of tokenism in Oxford dictionary|work=Oxford Dictionaries Online}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.oed.com/view/Entry/202951?redirectedFrom=tokenism#eid|title=tokenism, n.|work=[[Oxford English Dictionary]]}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=http://dictionary.reference.com/browse/tokenism|title=Tokenism|work=[[Reference.com]]}}</ref> The sociological purpose of tokenism is to give the appearance of inclusivity to a workplace or a school that is not as [[Diversity (politics)|culturally diverse]] (racial, religious, sexual, etc.) as the rest of society.<ref name="hogg&vaughan">{{cite book|last1=Hogg|first1=Michael A.|last2=Vaughan|first2=Graham M.|title=Social Psychology|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=7MtEr4r2pRcC&pg=PA368|year=2008|publisher=[[Prentice Hall]]|location=Harlow|pages=368–369|isbn=978-0-13-206931-1}}</ref>