Chapter 9: Prejudice Flashcards
Stereotyping
A belief about the personal attributes of a group of people.
Stereotypes are sometimes overgeneralized, inaccurate, and resistant to new information (and sometimes accurate)
Prejudice
A preconceived negative judgment of a group and its individual members
Discrimination
Unjustified negative behavior toward a group or its members
Racism
prejudicial attitudes and discriminatory behavior toward people of a given race
Sexism
prejudicial attitudes and discriminatory behavior toward people of a given sex
Benevolent Sexism
subtler form of sexism and is expressed in a seemingly positive way.
It is expressed by emphasizing men’s role to protect and provide for women by putting them on a pedestal in a chivalrous way
Hostile Sexism
a form of sexism in which people, especially women, who do not conform to traditional gender roles are viewed in a negative manner.
Socialization
the process of social influence through which a person acquires the culture or subculture of their group,
Institutional support for prejudice
The unfair, indirect methods or treatment of individuals that are embedded in the operating procedures, policies, laws or objectives of the organizations
Scapegoat theory
the tendency to blame someone else for one’s own problems, a process that often results in feelings of prejudice toward the person or group that one is blaming.
Social identity theory
The “we” aspect of our self-concept
the part of our answer to “Who am I?” that comes from our group memberships
Ingroup bias
The tendency to favor one’s own group
Ethnocentric
Believing in the superiority of one’s own ethnic and cultural group, and having a corresponding disdain for all other groups
Just-world phenomenon
The tendency of people to believe that the world is just and that people therefore get what they deserve and deserve what they get
Subtyping
Accommodating individuals who deviate from one’s stereotype by thinking of them as “exceptions to the rule,”
