Diversity: Key WORDS Ch 2

Question 1

ambivalent sexism

Answer 1

the simultaneous holding of both hostile and “benevolent” sexist beliefs about women; for example, “women are incompetent at work”

Question 2

aversive racism

Answer 2

the holding of egalitarian values and beliefs that one is unprejudiced (fördomsfri) but still possessing negative feelings and beliefs about racial issues and minority group members

Question 3

benevolent (välvillig) sexism

Answer 3

a set of interrelated attitudes towards women that are sexist while they are perceived (uppfattas) as positive by the attitude holder

Question 4

descriptive stereotyping

Answer 4

perceptions (uppfattning) about how people do or will behave, based on their group members

Question 5

discrimination

Answer 5

differential and pejorative (nedsättande) actions that serve to limit the social, political, or economic opportunities of members of particular groups

Question 6

egalitarian

Answer 6

one who believes in human equality, particularly (särskilt) regarding social, political, and economic rights and privileges

Question 7

fundamental attribution error

Answer 7

the tendency to underestimate the influence of external factors (situations or circumstances) and overestimate the influence of internal factors (personal qualities) when evaluating the behavior of out-group members

Question 8

hostile (fientlig) sexism

Answer 8

antipathy toward women based on faulty and inflexible generalizations (negative stereotypes)

Question 9

internalized racism

Answer 9

the acceptance and belief by members of devalued races in negative messages about their own abilities and intrinsic worth and those of others of the same race

Question 10

neosexism

Answer 10

the conflict between people’s reported egalitarian values and their negative attitudes toward women

Question 11

prejudice (fördom)

Answer 11

irrational, negative evaluations of a group

Question 12

prescriptive (normativa) stereotyping

Answer 12

perceptions (uppfattningar) about how people should behave, based on their group memberships

Question 13

social identity

Answer 13

the part of an individual’s self-concept that derives from his or her membership in a social group and the value and emotional significance attached to that group membership

Question 14

stereotypes

Answer 14

overgeneralizations of characteristics to large human groups