Lecture 2

Question 1

What are active strategies for responding to prejudice?

Answer 1

Confronting and reporting

Question 2

What are passive strategies for responding to prejudice?

Answer 2

Ignoring or withdrawing from a situation-pretending you didn’t hear, leaving room etc

Question 3

What is a better strategy for responding to prejudice: active or passive?

Answer 3

Active

Question 4

Is confrontation more effective if you’re part of the target group or not?

Answer 4

It’s more effective when you’re not part of the target group

Question 5

Why is confrontation less effective if you’re part of the target group?

Answer 5

When you’re part of the target group, you can be seen as being self-interested, less well-liked, cost of confronting are higher

Question 6

Why is confrontation more effective if you’re not part of the target group?

Answer 6

Better chance at inducing guilt and reducing negative behaviour-tendency to hold more power in organizations/situations, more influence, better able to set norms, lead perpetrators to engage in attitude changes and self-reflection.

Question 7

What are the 5 steps to responding to prejudice?

Answer 7

1) Interpreting the incident as stereotyping/prejudice/discrimination
2) Deciding whether it is serious enough to warrant a response
3) Take responsibilty for confronting
4) deciding on a strategy
5) responding

Question 8

What are some strategies for responding?

Answer 8

Questioning (generates answers instead of resistance), try to create cognitive dissonance, expression of feelings, humour, appeal to values, clarification, education

Question 9

What is the better general style to respond to prejudice in?

Answer 9

Calm is better than hostile or aggressive. Both calm and hostile can result in change, but aggressiveness can be met with resistance. Generalized over personal

Question 10

What is collective action?

Answer 10

Intentional actions of groups of individuals aimed at benefitting a group