Chapter 11

Question 1

What is social dominance theory?

Answer 1

Theory about the hierarchical nature of societies, how they remain stable, and how more powerful/privileged of groups in a socially maintain their advantage.

Hierarchies tend to be based on:
-age
-gender
-ethnicity
-religion
-race

Question 2

What are hierarchies kept in place by?

Answer 2

Individual discrimination: dominant groups act to keep their advantage over other groups: “keep them in their place”

Institutional discrimination: in which laws and norms preserve the hierarchy

Behavioural asymmetrics: in which defence is shown to members of dominant but not subordinate groups and self fulfilling prophecies undermine the achievements or members of subordinate groups.

Question 3

What is the “great replacement theory”:

Answer 3

Europe white people are being replaced by non white people

Question 4

What is social dominance orientation?

Answer 4

A personality trait that corresponds to a persons support for socioeconomic hierarchy and the belief that different groups should occupy higher and lower positions in society.

Question 5

What is believing in strict meritocracy?

Answer 5

Some people merit more then others, and that this is a just world with economic mobility

Question 6

What is the just world hypothesis?

Answer 6

People get what they deserve

And deserve what they get.

Ex. Victims of rape are often blamed

Question 7

What is dehumanization?

Answer 7

The attraction of non human characteristics and denial of human qualities to groups (generally to groups you’re not in)

Question 8

What is anthropomorphism?

Answer 8

Attribution of human traits, feelings and intentions to non human entities

Ex. My sweet monkey :)

Likely to see anthropomorphism when need a social connection (oh)

Question 9

What is the stereotype content model?

Answer 9

Describes the nature of common group stereotypes positing that they vary along warmth and competence scales

Question 10

How do we access groups nature of stereotypes?

Answer 10

1) the groups intentions

2) if they can act on their intentions

Question 11

Do people tend to see these people warmly?
The poor
The rich
Politicians

Answer 11

Poor: yes

Rich: no

Politicians: no

Question 12

What are acts of commission?

Answer 12

An individual is engaging in actions that disadvantage or harm members of certain groups

Question 13

Explain bias in law enforcement

Answer 13

See black people as more likely to cause trouble

Pull them over more

See them as holding weapon more

Question 14

What is bias in hiring?

Answer 14

Stereotypical black names are less picked in hiring them white names

Question 15

What is bias in absent or witheld?

Answer 15

People don’t pay as much attention to POC

Especially indigenous peoples (missing and murdered women)

Question 16

What are systemic inequalities?

Answer 16

Historical or contemporary laws, policies, practices, and norms that advantage some groups in society and disadvantage others when it comes to wealth, education, housing or healthcare

Question 17

Sexism/ racism in language

Answer 17

Man kind is a masculine term to describe the population

Other words have bad connotations from prejudice

Question 18

What is attributional ambiguity?

Answer 18

Unsure if you’re being treated in a certain way because of prejudice

“Was I treated like this because I’m a woman?”

Question 19

What is stereotype threat?

Answer 19

Fear of conforming to the stereotypes that others have about their group

Question 20

What is the cost of concelement ?

Answer 20

Hiding true identity as part of a marginalized group (ex. LGBTQ).

The monitoring process necessary to conceal part of oneself is very demanding

Question 21

Why can interactions between different group members be hard? (2 reasons)

Answer 21

1) people like to associate with others similar to themselves

2) people are aware of tensions between one group and the next

Question 22

What is a social safety net?

Answer 22

More openness and diversity creates more wealth and productivity

But the social net that this creates is biased.
People tend to help others IF they’re in the same group

Question 23

How do people react to changing demographics (less percentage of white people)?

Answer 23

Perceived threat of outgroups immigration

Question 24

What is the Marley hypothesis?

Answer 24

Different racial groups make different assessments of the amount of racism today because they differ in their knowledge of racial history.

Ex. Thinking there’s no oppression anymore cuz no more slavery.
Like yeah that’s good man, but there still is quite a bit of racism today.