UNit 6 Flashcards
Stereotyping, prejudice and discrimination
What is Stereotyping?
The cognitive component of attitudes toward a social group
-> beliefs about what a particular group is like
What are Gender Stereotypes
Beliefs concerning the characteristics of women and men
-> Consists of both positive and negative traits
What is the Glass ceiling?
Presence of a final barrier that prevents women from reaching top positions in the workplace
What is the Glass cliff effect?
In times of crisis women are most likely to gain access to high-status positions
What is Tokenism?
Only a few members of a previously excluded group are admitted
-> e.g.: a few women break the ceiling glass
What can be some effects of tokenism?
complaining can draw attention to problem but can also be rejected by group (e.g.: attempt to escape personal responsibility)
What do stereotypes often work as?
as schemas
-> they act as theories that guide what we attend to and exert strong effects on how we process social information
what do stereotypes lead us to do?
to pay more attention to specific types of information and usually information consistent with our stereotypes
what may we do instead of modifying the automatically activated form of information processing?
we may create subtypes
-> consisting of people who do not confirm the schema/stereotype
(basically, it is an exception when it doesn’t confirm with my stereotypes)
What is Prejudice?
The affective component of stereotypes
(emotional)
what does Prejudice reflect?
a negative response to another person based solely on that persons membership in a particular group
Is Prejudice personal?
no, it is an affective reaction toward the category
What does the expression of prejudice in discrimination or not depend on?
Perceived norms
Acceptability of doing so
what do some theories claim about prejudice?
that there is a distinction between prejudices that are associated with specific intergroup emotions
-> e.g.: disgust towards gay people, pity for native Americans and so on
What does Prejudice alter?
how we process information
-> we give more attention to information related to our prejudices
what belief is prejudice based on?
that groups have underlying essences
-> feelings about groups are legitimized, which results in discrimination
what needs to be tackled in order to reduce prejudice?
the emotion of the intergroup
-> base of the prejudice
What are Incidental feelings in Prejudice and what can they generate??
feelings caused by factors other than the outgroup per se
-> can generate implicit associations
what are implicit associations?
automatic prejudice towards members o groups to which we do not belong
What can implicit associations be triggered in?
in a seemingly automatic manner as a result of categorization (in-group vs. outgroup)
What are the 3 origins of Prejudice?
- Threat to self-esteem
- Competition for resources as a source of prejudice
- Cognitive effects of social categorization
How can Prejudice be linked to self-esteem?
When an event threatens people’s perception of their group’s value they may retaliate
-> threat doesn’t need to involve possible death, threat to identity is enough
What is Recategorization?
reminding people who value their ingroup identity that they share a more inclusive identity to lower perceived threat and prejudice
What are Zero-sum outcomes?
in the occasion that things people want most are in short supply
→if one group gets them the other group cannot