Stereotype, Discrimination and Prejudice Flashcards
What is Prejudice?
- Prejudging a particular person/group
- Having bias and opinions about groups (racism, ageism, feminism)
Gordon Allport defined prejudice as:
“An antipathy (negative feeling) based on faulty and inflexible generalisation. May be felt or expressed. May be directed toward a group or an inidividual of that group”
What is a Stereotype?
Lippman (1922)
- Generalisation about groups and individual members of that particular group
- Can be positive, negative or prejudicial
- Most stereotypes make the person saying the phrase more superior to the group/person being stereotyped
What are the 2 types of prejudice as outlined by John Farley?
- Cognitive Prejudice: Refers to what people believe to be true
- Affective Prejudice: What people like and dislike (eg. particular races, ethnicity)
What is Discrimination?
- Unequal treatment to people in a particular group
- Behaviour or action intended towards a group because of the fact that they are in that particular group
What is Personal Discrimation?
1) Personal:
- Directed to particular individual
- Act that leads to unequal treatment because of individuals real group membership
What is Legal Discrimination?
2) Legal:
- Unequal treatment on grounds of group membership that is guided by law
What is Institutional Discrimination?
3) Institutional:
- Unequal treatment entrenched in basic social institutions
- Advantaging one group over the other
- Eg. Discrimination of age, gender, sex, sexuality, race
What is Ageism?
- Prejudice against old people simply because theyre old
- Maybe because of indicative fear of old age in contemporary society
- Associated with belief that chronological age results inevitable in mental and physical decline
What did Jerrome define old age as?
“State of feeling and behaving rather than a chronological state”
