Prejudice And Dehumanisation Flashcards
What is a stereotype?
Ideas we have about groups of people
They can be positive or negative, and true or false
What is prejudice?
A negative attitude
What is overt racism?
Yelling, being very openly racist
Abusing people on public transport
Explicit attitudes, consciously controlled, easier to change
What is subtle/modern racism?
Prejudice directed at other racial groups that exists alongside a rejection of explicitly racist beliefs
Emerges when a suitable justification or disguise for discriminatory action exist
Implicit attitudes- automatic, not conscious, difficult to change
What did the CV study reveal?
Across Australia, people with Anglo-Saxon names are far more likely to get an interview compared to ethnic minorities
Chinese need to submit to 68% more cvs
Middle Eastern 64% more
Indigenous 35% more
Italian 12% more
What are implicit attitudes?
Cultural conceptions of race and sex stereotypes learned from easily age
Personal beliefs draw more from controlled processes
Prejudicial reaction may be automatic, only the controlled override May separate the tolerant person from the biget
Implicit test from Harvard
How is social prejudice formed?
Social inequalities
- worried about losing jobs in gfc to refugees
Socialisation
- authoritarian personality and social dominance orientation (hierarchy of people and your group I.e. White people are at the top)
What is social identity theory?
Feeling superior to others
What are motivational sources of prejudice?
Social identity theory
People have in group bias- people prefer people in same group
Need for status, self-regard and belonging
Self esteem go up for group success I.e. Winning at the Olympics
What are cognitive sources of prejudice?
Categorisation: classifying people into groups
- short cuts
- spontaneous categorisation I.e. Barack Obama categorisation because he was first black president
- perceived similarities and differences
Distinctiveness: perceiving people who stand out
- distinctive people
- vivid cases
- Distinctive events
What is dehumanisation
When one group of people make a stereotype of another group of people that makes them less than human, and gives them grounds to go ahead and treat them like they are lesser
What did Harris and fiske find about homeless and drug addicts?
Neuroimaging discovered that people view them as less than human
