individual differences in prejudice

Question 1

social dominance oreintation

Answer 1

people with high SDOlikely to embrace ideologies of social heiracrycs
-try to maintain and amo=plify hierarchy’s
agree with disproportionate allocation of resources such as education , healthcare and money
- engage in behaviours that promote discrimination in order to maintain hierarchy’s such as limiting opportunities such as jobs and dismiss ‘inclusive’ policies such as immigration

Question 2

A03

Answer 2

michinov et al- found that white employers with high SDO were more enclined to employ white employees- prejudism in order to maintain dominance and hirgachy by employing people like them

weakness- 7 point likert scale questionnaire e.g. ‘ some groups are simply inferior to others’ - correlational/ social desirability

Question 3

adorno

Answer 3

defence mechanisms, high authoritarian personality where parents overprotective and practiced conditional love parenting style, very strict
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-displacment, fear of punishment from parents, therefore displace anger towards parents onto safer targets, minority groups perceived as weaker
-scapegoating, blaming inferior groups
-reaction formation where feel like they need to protect evryone else from inferior groups like they were in childhood, hatred for people considered be socially inferior or belong to other social groups

Question 4

A03

Answer 4

cohrs- when looking at personalities such as right wing authoritarianism, SDO, prejudism, big 5 personality dimensions
RWA correlated most with prejudism
- one of big 5 personality dimensions = openness
RWA negatively correlated with openness, Adorno suggests that high authoritarian personality have negative perspective of people, skepitcal of people as they have been protected ain childhood and taught about ‘ inferior’- less likely open up and trust people
supports

-RCT opposes suggest situational factors better explanation peal harbour/ WW1, prejudice arose due to competition over limited resources and …
sherif….

Question 5

application

Answer 5

educate people with these prejudices towards lower classes, who have the ideologyy that thoes in lower classes are’lazy’ and choose to live how they do and thoes in higher classes deserve to be as they have worked hard
e.g. through TV shows like comic relief demonstrating the reality as to why some people don’t have access to opportunities, mental health, poverty, no access education
realise they are hindered by intractable obstacles curbing SDO
donate to charity and become empathetic instead of prejudice