Lecture 5 - Race Discrimination Flashcards
What are subjective measures of race discrimination?
Self-reporting the number of times aggressive acts had been done against a person in the past year/daily basis, which were motivated by race.
What are objective measures of race discrimination?
Black and White participants tipped white waiters more than black waiters, when controlling for service quality. IAT supports the finding that minorities begin to discriminate against ingroup members (learned association?).
What were the findings of studies that sent out application letters using various ethnic names?
In 1991, the Vietnamese and the Greek were significantly more denied an interview than Anglo-Australians. In 2012, Chinese and Middle Eastern applicants had to send out 50% more applications than Anglo-Australians before getting an equal callback rate, with similar findings for Indigenous Australians.
What are the assumptions of the Interactive Acculturation Model in multicultural societies?
That integrationist and individualist policies will most be promoted towards minorities (mixing nationalities or retaining original nationality mostly).
What are the findings of acculturation orientation studies? What is the ideal behind these studies?
These studies recognise that outgroup perspectives can range from positive to negative. When Australians were asked on attitudes towards Muslims, integrationist and individualist policies were more supported than segregationist and assimilationist policies. Moreover, attitudes were more positive than negative.
