Prejudice Vocab Flashcards
The tendency to assume that ones culture is superior to all others
Ethnocentrism
Criminal offense commuted because the offender’s bias against a race or religion
Hate crime
A negative attitude toward an entire category of people
Prejudice
Racial slurs
Ethnophaulisms
Scapegoating theory
A person or group blamed for another person or group problems
A psychological construct of a personality type likely to be prejudiced and to use others as scapegoats
Authoritarian personality
A Marxist theory that views racial subordination in the United States as a manifestation of the class system
Exploitation theory
The view that prejudice is influenced by societal norms and situations that encourage or discourage the tolerance or minorities
Normative approach
Exaggerated generalizations about all members of a group that do not take individual differences into account
Stereotypes
Any arbitrary police initiated action based on race rather than a persons behavior
Racial profiling
Use of race neutral principles to defend the racially unequal status quo
Color blind racism
Tendency to approach or withdraw from a racial group
Social distance
Technique to measure social distance toward different racial and ethnic groups
Bogardus scale
An interactionist perspective stating that inter group contact between people of equal status in noncompetitive circumstances will reduce prejudice
Contact hypothesis
