6.2 Positive and Negative Elements of Social Interaction Part 2

Question 1

What is reverse discrimination?

Answer 1

discriminating against a majority

Question 2

What is the definition of racism?

Answer 2

prejudice and actions that discriminate based on race or hold one race inferior to another

Question 3

What is institutional discrimination?

Answer 3

unjust and discriminatory practices employed by large organizations that have been codified into operating procedures, processes, or institutional objectives

Question 4

What are the three components of attitudes?

Answer 4

1. affect
2. behavioral inclinations/tendencies
3. cognition

Question 5

What is the definition of scapegoats?

Answer 5

people at whom displaced aggression is directed

Question 6

What is illusory correlation?

Answer 6

perceived correlation between two things even when none exists

Question 7

What is self-fulfilling prophecy?

Answer 7

when stereotypes lead a person to behave in such a way as to affirm the original stereotype

Question 8

What is stereotype threat?

Answer 8

refers to a self-fulfilling fear that one will be evaluated based on a negative stereotype

Question 9

What is ethnocentrism?

Answer 9

the tendency to judge people from another culture by the standards of one’s own culture

Question 10

What is cultural relativism?

Answer 10

judging another culture based on its own standards

Question 11

What is the definition of group?

Answer 11

collection of any number of people who regularly interact and identify with each other sharing similar norms, values, and expectations

Question 12

What are primary groups?

Answer 12

groups that play a more important role in an individual’s life; usually smaller and include those with whom the individual engages with in person

Question 13

What is a secondary group?

Answer 13

larger and more impersonal group that may interact for specific reasons and for shorter periods of time

Question 14

What is an in-group?

Answer 14

group that an individual belongs to and believes to be an integral part of who she is

Question 15

What is an out-group?

Answer 15

group that an individual does not belong to

Question 16

What is a reference group?

Answer 16

standard measure that people compare themselves to

Question 17

What is an aggregate?

Answer 17

people who exist in the same space but do not interact or share a common sense of identity

Question 18

What is a category?

Answer 18

people who share similar characteristics but are not otherwise tied together

Question 19

What is a bureaucracy?

Answer 19

term used to describe an administrative body and the processes by which this body accomplishes tasks

Question 20

What is the concept of rationalization?

Answer 20

describes the process by which tasks are broken down into component parts to be efficiently accomplished by workers within organizations