Chapter 11 Flashcards
What is social dominance theory?
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
What are hierarchies kept in place by?
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.
What is the “great replacement theory”:
Europe white people are being replaced by non white people
What is social dominance orientation?
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.
What is believing in strict meritocracy?
Some people merit more then others, and that this is a just world with economic mobility
What is the just world hypothesis?
People get what they deserve
And deserve what they get.
Ex. Victims of rape are often blamed
What is dehumanization?
The attraction of non human characteristics and denial of human qualities to groups (generally to groups you’re not in)
What is anthropomorphism?
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)
What is the stereotype content model?
Describes the nature of common group stereotypes positing that they vary along warmth and competence scales
How do we access groups nature of stereotypes?
1) the groups intentions
2) if they can act on their intentions
Do people tend to see these people warmly?
The poor
The rich
Politicians
Poor: yes
Rich: no
Politicians: no
What are acts of commission?
An individual is engaging in actions that disadvantage or harm members of certain groups
Explain bias in law enforcement
See black people as more likely to cause trouble
Pull them over more
See them as holding weapon more
What is bias in hiring?
Stereotypical black names are less picked in hiring them white names
What is bias in absent or witheld?
People don’t pay as much attention to POC
Especially indigenous peoples (missing and murdered women)
What are systemic inequalities?
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
Sexism/ racism in language
Man kind is a masculine term to describe the population
Other words have bad connotations from prejudice
What is attributional ambiguity?
Unsure if you’re being treated in a certain way because of prejudice
“Was I treated like this because I’m a woman?”
What is stereotype threat?
Fear of conforming to the stereotypes that others have about their group
What is the cost of concelement ?
Hiding true identity as part of a marginalized group (ex. LGBTQ).
The monitoring process necessary to conceal part of oneself is very demanding
Why can interactions between different group members be hard? (2 reasons)
1) people like to associate with others similar to themselves
2) people are aware of tensions between one group and the next
What is a social safety net?
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
How do people react to changing demographics (less percentage of white people)?
Perceived threat of outgroups immigration
What is the Marley hypothesis?
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.
