chapter 4&5: prejudice and discrimination

Question 1

prejudice

Answer 1

attitudinal system of negative beliefs

Question 2

what are the prejudice levels

Answer 2

cognitive:persons beliefs or perceptions.
emotional: feelings a minority group arouses.
action-oriented: positive or negative disposition or learning to engage in discriminatory behavior.

Question 3

phychological explanations of prejudice

Answer 3

self-justification: explaining

personality: to compensate
frustration: lack of resources
stereotypes: oversimplified generalization

Question 4

ethnophaulisms

Answer 4

derogatory word or an expression used to describe a racial or an ethnic group.

Question 5

different types of prejudice

Answer 5

gender, sexuality, racial, and ethnic, ability, age, class

Question 6

types of ethnophaulisms

Answer 6

disparaging nicknames
alleged behaviors
alleged physical characteristics

Question 7

discrimination

Answer 7

is a actual behavior when you treat someone different.

Question 8

levels of discrimination

Answer 8

verbal expression
avoidance
exclusion
physical abuse
extermination

Question 9

passive discriminator

Answer 9

silent consent to others.

Question 10

what does passive discriminator exists in?

Answer 10

banking, judicial system, employment, education, and health care.

Question 11

A Trip to the Grocery Store: video notes

Answer 11

cashier greeting kathleen with a positive attitude waiting for kathleen to finish writing her check. -remember kathleen is very white, cashier is chatting up with kathleen.

Then joy comes up, no conversation just a little chatter. joy daughter that is ten notices immediately the differences on how she responds to her mother.. later on when joy writes her check, the cashier asks her immediately that she needs two pieces of I.D, at which point joy daughter looks her in an embarrassing look and starts to tear up. then joy gives her two pieces of I.D because she just had to choose the battles…then later on the cashier pulls out the bad check book, which it shows the people who’ve written bad checks.. then the cashier starts looking on her license then the book to see if her name is on there. kathleen went up to the cashier asked why shes doing this and she responds back saying thats the policy, but she didn’t do that with her, and kathleen responds to her saying because she’s seen her various of times here.

the cashier used her white privileged.

kathaleen used her whited privilege to educate and make right a situation that was wrong.

Question 12

active discriminator

Answer 12

taking action against someone

Question 13

institutional discriminator

Answer 13

unequal