Prejudice Flashcards
What is the definition of prejudice
Pre judging someone based on their characteristics and factors about them such as age gender religion ethnicity. It is a hostile learned attitude
What can prejudice lead to
Discrimination - acting upon prejudicial views and beliefs, it is more of a physical form of prejudice
What are the two theories of prejudice?
Social Identity Theory
Realistic Conflict Theory
What are the three stages of group formation identified by Tajfel
Social catergorisation
Social identification
Social comparison
What is the definition of homogenous
The tendency to see the out group as a group of people who are all similar, leading to stereotypes
What is the definition of heterogenous
The tendency to see the in group as a group who share group norms but have their own individual identities
At what stage of group formations does prejudice occur
Social comparison
What evidence did tajfel conduct that supports SIT and what did they find that supports SIT
Tajfels minimal group studies
Even though though the boys in group was strangers, over several tasks, the boys overwhelmingly favoured the in group, supporting the idea that merely the presence of an in group and an out group leads to prejudice
What Theory of prejudice did Sherif develop
Realistic conflict theory (RCT)
What are the main ideas of RCT?
Competition for scarce resources leads to prejudice (due to in group and out group discrimination) as the competition (zero sum games) means you want to out group to lose and in group to win
That competition can be reduced using superordinate goals
Finite resources and zero sum game
In group and out group discrimination occurs when competing for scarce resources as you want the out group to lose and in group to win
What is the definition of a superordinate goal
Where the in group and out group have to work together in order to achieve the goal
What experiment is realistic conflict theory based on
Sherifs robbers cave experiment
Why may SIT be a more complete explanation of how prejudice is caused compared to RCT
SIT may be more complete than RCT because it accounts for why prejudice may occur without competition for scarce resources
Why might RCT be more useful to us than SIT, as a society when trying to reduce prejudice
RCT gives us a strategy we could use to reduce prejudice that is more easily done than what SIT would suggest reduces prejudice
How does SIT suggest to reduce prejudice
Break down groups barriers
