Chapter 13 Flashcards
acquaintance potential
the opportunity for members of interacting groups to get to know each other as individuals
affirmative action
programs within organizations designed to combat discrimination and to provide equal opportunity in employment for all members of the organization. Most affirmative action programs are voluntary
assimilationist perspective
the perspective that minority and immigrant groups should give up their own cultures and replace them with the language, values, behavior patterns, and other aspects of the
majority culture
color-blind perspective
group membership should be ignored when interacting with or making decisions about others
contact hypothesis/intergroup contact theory
when we interact with people of different ways of life we become more understanding and less prejudiced
extended contact effect
having friends who are friends with members of the outgroup may help to lower prejudice
multicultural perspective
race and ethnicity should be given attention (rather than ignored) because prejudice develops in part from a lack of
knowledge of and respect for other groups
personalization
learning to see people in the outgroup as individuals rather than undifferentiated members of social categories
polycultural perspective
there is no such thing as a pure culture because, throughout history and into the present, cultures have interacted with and shared knowledge, customs, and
other cultural goods with one another
rebound effect
an enhanced return of suppressed thoughts
salient categorization
the outgroup comes to be seen in nonstereotypic terms
self-regulation model
people who see themselves as unprejudiced become sensitized to environmental cues to warn them when they may react in a prejudiced manner to a member of a stereotyped group
