Reducing Prejudice

Question 1

3 ways to reduce prejudice

Answer 1

Education

Super ordinate goals

Increasing contact

Question 2

How can prejudice be reduced through education

Answer 2

challenge stereotypes

raise awareness of what it feels like to be a victim of prejudice

Question 3

Jane Elliot - Blue Eyes - brown eyes study

Answer 3

teach children what it felt like to be a victim of prejudice

told her class that some students were superior to others (more intelligent etc) becaause they had blue eyes - led to discrimination between the pupils

interviews with the children as adults revealed the study had prevented them from acting prejudice against others

Question 4

how do super ordinate goals reduce prejudice

Answer 4

by working together it is harder to divide into in-groups and out groups

the two previously hostile groups should start to develop a group identity - helps to prevent individuals from making negative comparisons

Question 5

Aronson et al. - jigsaw technique

Answer 5

mixed race classroom

each child received a part of the whole assignment and was dependant on the other children in the group to perform well in it

observed a reduction in racial tension and an increase in the number of students achieving

Question 6

how does increased contact reduce prejudice

Answer 6

meeting members of other social groups can reduce prejudice by reducing the effect of stereotypes

Question 7

what are stereotypes based on and how do they occur

Answer 7

intergroup similarities are perceived or outgroup differences are exaggerated

based on mis information and lack of contact/ experience

Question 8

Deutsh and Collins (1951) - housing projects

Answer 8

looked at contact between different groups in 2 housing projects

integrated housing and segregated housing for ethnic groups

less prejudice in the integrated housing project - contact does seem to reduce prejudice