Chapter 12 Part 1: Prejudice, Stereotype, Discrimination Flashcards
Prejudice
Negative attitude tat you have toward a group of people
Stereotypes
Beliefs about a group
Discrimination
Negative behaviour toward individual
3 cause roots of prejudice:
- hostile feelings linked to salient category of people
- familiarity-based preferences for the in-group over out-group (in-group bias)
- internalized worldview
Displaced aggression
Ex: hating Muslim’s bc of 911
Ex: hating Jews bc of Palestine
Scapegoating
Ex: if ur tryna get a job but you can’t so you blame the immigrants
In-group bias
“We like us better than we like them”
- people gave a familiarity based preference for in groups over out groups
Ethnocentrism
Viewing the world through our own cultural value system and judging actions and ppl based on our own culture view of right and wrong
Ex: in our culture giving eye contact is respect but in other cultures it’s disrespect , so we would judge them for not being respectful
Institutional discrimination
Unit restrictions that are embedded so we don’t even realize
Ex: women occupations inherently pay less (nursing, child care…)
Aversive racism
When you here good intentions but at the same time you here unconscious bias
Implicit prejudice
Not conscious of your prejudice
Where do peoples stereotypic beliefs come from?
Cultural perspective
Social role theory
Ex: women are better caregivers bc I’ve seen more women caregive Than men
Kernel of truth hypothesis
Stereotypes may contain a bit of truth
Stereotypes as self esteem booster: study
Students who revive lower grade rate female instructors as less competent than male teachers
How do stereotypes happen?
- categorization (gender, age, religion…)
- out group homogeneity effect (we think our groups are diverse but other groups are all the same)
- automatic stereotypes activation (priming)
How do stereotypes contribute to bias?
Having a leaning towards one over another
Stereotype threat
A concern that you might do something to confirm a negative stereotype
Social identity threat
Ex: someone poor, stereotypes that they’re not smart, so now that poor person feels like they’re not smart, and now they won’t try to be good
Dual process view of prejudice
Process 1: stereotypes are automatically brought up
Process 2: control the thoughts
The contact hypothesis
Positive interactions between diff groups can reduce prejudice (mere exposure effect)
Why does intergroup contact work?
Reduce stereotypes
Reduce anxiety
Empathy
