Module 6 (midterm 2) Flashcards
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Stereotypes
Oversimplified assumptions about the qualities and characteristics of people based solely on their membership in a group
Stereotypes assume that all people in a group share:
The exact same attributes (qualities, characteristics)
Stereotypes can be based on
Any social group
-sex, gender identity, race, social class, weight, height, residence, ethnicity, religion, etc
Positive stereotypes:
Black people are good at basketball
Negative stereotypes
Pro female sports are inferior to male pro sports
Why do we all hold stereotypes
They are cognitive shortcuts that immediately come to mind when we see someone as belonging to a specific social group
Stereotypes help us
Simplify the world
-but they lead to prejudice which leads to discrimination
Prejudice
Unjustified, pre conceived negative attitude or belief about a person based solely on their membership in a social group
3 Components of Prejuice
Cognitive, Affective/ emotional, Conative
Cognitive Prejudice:
Based on our stereotypes
-what people believe is true about a group
Affective/ Emotional Prejudice
Based on our feeling (anger, hate, pity)
-likes and dislikes about a group
Conative Prejudice
How we are included to behave
-but not act on it
The three components of prejudice are related, but:
Don’t all have to exist for discrimination to occur
Discrimination
Unfair, biased, negative actions or decisions that treat a person or group unequally
Prejudice of Discrimination
Unequal treatment of others based on their perceived or actual membership in a protected group
Discrimination maintains privileges for the what group
Dominant
-privileged, non marginalized at the cost of depriving underprivileged, marginalized groups
Dominant groups
Privileged, non-marginalized
Subordinate Groups
Underprivileged, marginalized
Privilege
Unearned and mostly unacknowledged societal advantage that a restricted group of people has over another group(s)
Discrimination is a social what and what phenomenon
A socially structured and sanctioned phenomenon, justified by the dominant ideology
Dominant Ideolofy
A set of common values, beliefs, or ideas shared by most people in a society
Dominant ideologies frame how most people think about
A range of topics (politics, economic, science, PA)
-built upon perspectives and ideas favoured by the dominant group in a society and serves their interests
Dominant ideology requires seeing the
General in the particular
-to recognize the larger pattern and impacts of dominant ideology
What’s a “Norm”
Informal rules that no live one expected/ standard way of thinking, feeling, and behaving established by a dominant group