Slides Week 11 Flashcards
1
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What is culture?
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Shared beliefs, values and norms
- understanding human nature requires that we know about their cultural history
2
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Difference between prejudice and discrimination
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Prejudice is an attitude and discrimination is behaviour
- usually negative
- directed towards others based on race, gender or other difference
3
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3 components of prejudice
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- Cognitive Component
e. g. women are not cut out for leadership - Affective component
e. g. I get angry when i see a woman doing a mans job - Behavioural component
e. g. I would’nt hire a woman manager
4
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3 explanations of Prejudice and discrimination
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- Competition of scarce resources (realistic conflict theory)
- Tendency to divide world into social categories (in groups and out groups)
- Behaviours that are learned through observation (social cognitive theory)
5
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Realistic Conflict Theory
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- Competition for resources increases so does prejudice and discrimination
6
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In Groups and Out Groups
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- Social categories divide people and lead to threats to social identity
7
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Social Cognitive Theory
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People learn prejudice and hatred by modeling and reinforcement from their social class
8
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Vicarious Learning
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- When there is no direct reinforcement or punishment behavior can still be shaped
- doing nothing can reinforce a behaviour
9
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Methods for unlearning prejudice
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- Inter-cooperative group contact
- Diversity Education
- Open discussions
10
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Inter-Coopearative Group contact - Jigsaw classroom technique
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- Elliot Aronson 1970s
- Assign children into racially and academically diverse 6 member groups
- The weeks lesson divided into 6 parts
- Each child becomes an expert on his part and teaches it to the others
- group members must work together to reach their objective
11
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Jigsaw classroom technique
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- Found reduced racial conflict among school children
- improved motivation
- fosters learning and increases enjoyment
