Inequality and Ascription (Race)

Question 1

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 List the typology of prejudice and discrimination

o Minority and dominant groups
o Explain ‘ism’
o Race and ethnicity
- Describe the experience of racism

Answer 1

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Question 2

What is the difference between prejudice and discrimination?

Answer 2

Prejudice
- Involves attitude
Sustained by stereotypes (oversimplified generalised images about members of a particular group)
- A negative and hostile attitude toward a person who belongs to a group
- Simply because he or she belongs to that group and is therefore presumed to have the objectionable qualities ascribed to the group

Discrimination

• Involves behaviour
• Treating people unequally because of their membership in some group
• Denial of opportunities and equal rights to people on an arbitrary bias

Question 3

What are the five categories of discriminatory behaviours?

Answer 3

Allport’s five categories of discriminatory behaviours

Verbal rejection
Avoidance
Active discrimination
Physical Attacks
Extermination

Question 4

Elaborate on verbal rejection of Allport’s five categories of discriminatory behaviours

Answer 4

• Using derogatory nouns to refer to people in particular groups
• Telling jokes that put down entire groups of people

Question 5

Elaborate on avoidance of Allport’s five categories of discriminatory behaviours

Answer 5

• Avoiding interaction with people from particular groups

Question 6

Elaborate on active discrimination of Allport’s five categories of discriminatory behaviours

Answer 6

• Acting to exclude members of particular groups from education, employment, housing, political and recreational opportunities
• Segregation (dominant group maintain social distance from the minority.

Question 7

Elaborate on physical attacks of Allport’s five categories of discriminatory behaviours

Answer 7

• Using violence or the threat of violence against members of particular groups or their property, such as burning churches or desecrating graves

Question 8

Elaborate on extermination of Allport’s five categories of discriminatory behaviours

Answer 8

• Participating in lynchings, massacres, genocide, or pogroms

Question 9

Elaborate more on institutional discrimination

Answer 9

• Involves a denial of opportunities and equal rights to individuals and groups that results from the normal operation of society
• “built into” the usual operations of society

Examples:

• Height requirement in police/ fire department and cabin crew
• Preferences given to children of alumni for admission to prestigious universities

Question 10

Explain ‘ism’.

Answer 10

Suffix generally applied to any type of discrimination that is consistent with patterns of Institutional discrimination

• source: a member of the dominant group
• target: a member of minority group
• The minority tends not to be shocked when confronted with discrimination
• Part of their daily lives

Question 11

Describe the experience of racism

Answer 11

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