T3: Lecture 9 Flashcards
Define prejudice
Holding or derogatory attributes/beliefs, expressions of negative effect or display of hostile/discriminatory behaviour towards members of a group on account of their membership in that group
(not a dislike for personality, but dislike driven by a persons membership in a group)
How do people with low education/low SES express their prejudice?
In a blunt/harsh manner
How is the authoritarian personality described?
- Overly differential to those in authority whilst hostile towards those perceived as inferior
- Associated with conventional value system where right/wrong are clear and distinct
- Minority groups openly derogated
What did Adorno claim the authoritarian personality stemmed from ?
- Working from a Freudian perspective and claimed that Authoritarian personality was derived from childhood
- Harsh, demanding parents stifled child’s basic instincts
- Child’s aggression was displaced onto others
What is the Realistic Conflict Theory?
-Attitudes reflect objective interests of the in group
What are the two assumptions of the Realistic Conflict Theory?
- If interests coincide=good between group relationships
2. If interests conflict=hostile relations between group relationships
What can drive prejudice?
Competition
What is the Minimal Group Paradigm?
- Done by Taijfel, et al, a scientific attempt to create an empty environment where researches could add variable to elicit discrimination
- Groups randomly assigned, participants didn’t know members in in-group/out-group
- When choosing where to allocate more money to, always more to the in-group despite not knowing anyone
Who are people more likely to discriminate against?
Those who belong in different groups than themselves
What is the effect of leaders endorsing prejudice
Followers are encouraged to show Prejudice and feel it’s acceptable behaviour
