Chapter 9 Flashcards
Stereotyping
Stereotypes may be accurate or inaccurate, but they are collective social perceptions of a “type” of person.
Prejudice
A negative attitude towards a group or “type” of person.
Discrimination
A negative behavior towards a group or “type” of person.
Racism
The tendency to discriminate based on race.
Sexism
The tendency based on sex.
Benevolent
Discrimination that favors (or patronizes) a dis-empowered group.
Hostile
Discrimination that is hostile to a dis-empowered group.
Socialization
The mechanism through which ideas about how to interact with society are passed from adults to their children.
Institutional support for prejudice
Media and social institutions may reflect and thus support continued prejudice.
Scapegoat theory
When the cause of ones frustration is intimidating or unknown, someone may have “displaced aggression” and direct hostility at a group they already are prejudiced against for other reasons.
Social identity theory
We tend to define ourselves by the groups we belong to.
Ingroup bias
We tend to treat those that belong to our group more favorably.
Ethnocentric
A tendency to focus on one’s own ethnicity above all others.
Just-world phenomenon
Committing fundamental attribution error, assuming that it is a just world, and that people’s wrong actions are a result of personal failings and not circumstances.
Subtyping
Seeing people who deviate from a stereotype as an “exception.” Aka, “you’re one of the good (or bad) [blank].”
