reading guide questions Flashcards
what are the dimensions of the STEREOTYPE CONTENT MODEL? define each - measure each - what predicts how a group will rated
warmth (trust - sociability)
competency (agency)
measured
warmth: economic interdependence (competition vs. co-operation) - symbolic values (compatible)
competency (jobs held by group)
predicts: ethnicity - gender - symmetry with group norms
How does a country’s level of income equality - peace - affect stereotypes (SCM) ?
- INCOME:
- moderate to high inequality (ambivalent groups)
- high equality (all good insiders - select group of bad outsiders)
MORE EQUALITY - larger ‘us’ - small ‘them’ - less ambivalent groups
PEACE:
- peaceful and extreme conflict (us vs. them)
- moderate levels of peace - conflict (stereotype ambivalence)
Emotions evoked by each quadrant?
low - low : disgust (homeless)
high C - low w : envy, resentment, admiration (rich)
high - high: pride admiration (middle class)
low C - high W - pity , sympathy (elderly)
what does the SCM add to intergroup relations?
brings focus to how people relate to individuals and group - moves the focus to the IMPRESSIONS people form about other groups - and the motivations they have for doing so
ALL ABOUT IMPRESSIONS OF GROUPS
relation between warmth and communion
competency and agency
warmth (how sociable and trustworthy a person is)
communion (based on warmth and morality) - MORALITY AND WARMTH COMPONENT
competency (how capable a person is to achieve a goal) - AGENCY - competency AND assertiveness (ASSERTIVE COMPONENT)
TYPICAL RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN WARMTH AND COMPETENCE ?
high in one means low in the other (often - we see ambivalent stereotypes)
ex. women are high in warmth and low in competence while men are high in competence and low in warmth
what is the double jeopardy hypothesis ? predicts what?
idea that those who have intersectional identities experience a cumulative disadvantage - predicts they experience greater oppression and discrimination
subordinate male target hypothesis
prescribed hierarchies:
- age - gender)
- so from this men are the most dominant
- so men must fight each other for resources, primarily
SO men in the dominant group create ethnic hierarchies to ensure there is less competition for resources from other men who are the GREATEST THREAT TO RESOURCES - SO men from dominant groups will OPRESS MEN FROM FROM SUBORDINATE GROUPS to ensure this hierarchy and reduce competition
limitations of score-keeping intersectional approaches ? wha should we do instead ?
ignores how people with intersectional identities are independent on each other - ex. ethnic women care about and rely on ethnic men - so they experience adverse effects when these men are disadvantaged
not quantifiable - single measure that encompasses all this suffering
INSTEAD
reframe by asking HOW the forms of oppression of ppl. w intersectional identities experience differs from the forms of oppression ppl w a single identity experience
intersectional invisibility - three idealogies
through which dominant group perspectives become social standard
androcentrism: male experience as normative (male as prototypical)
ethnocentrism:norms of own group as normative (whiteness as social norm)
heterocentrism: heterosexuality as normative standard
so…… when you fall beyond the norm in multiple groups - you become MORE invisible because there is no one group to place you in
what does intersectional invisibility mean ?
it means being the marginalized member in an already marginalized group - you are so far from the norm in every group you belong to, that none of these group experiences can speak to you - might be seen as LESSER member of their respective groups, or their identities will be distorted to fit with each ggroup
advantages - disadvantages of intersectional invisibility
advantage
- avoid oppression aimed at prototypical group members - explains subordinate male hypothesis
disadvantage
- struggle to be recognized - represented
historical invisibility
misrepresented - deemphasized
in historical records
ex. black women’s history
black or womens history / librarian dilemma
black GAY men
black history or gay history
cultural invisibility
failure of cultural representations to capture the distinctive experiences of intersectional people
misrepresentation - mischaracterized
ex. schemas and tropes that are represented tend to be prototypical
ex. male sexuality as FIXED - becomes normative standard - disregards experiences of women who might have a sexuality that is in flux - dependent on emotional connection that might be different from a prescribed - fixed - sexual identity
political invisibility
failure of activist groups to represent intersectional identities that exist within that group - ex. gay rights fail to represent lesbian rights - offhanded to women’s rights groups who believe that gay rights groups will speak for lesbians
