culture and prejudice Flashcards
1
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What social factors may effect prejudice
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Social norms - statistically infrequent
Competition - i group and our group hostility
Zero sums fate
Limited resources ie food water.
2
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gievresearch to support
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replicated tajefel study and found that ethnic minority were more likely to give the other time points then the white caucasian boys.
3
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what is pedigrews research
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He investigated the idea that people who tended to be more conformist would also be more prejudiced, and found this to be true of white South African students. Similarly, he accounted for the higher levels of prejudice against black people in the southern United States than in the north in terms of the greater social acceptability of this kind of prejudice in the south
