Week 5 Readings Flashcards
(19 cards)
The tendency to discriminate in favour of ingroups over outgroups.
Ingroup favouritism
The classification of people into groups based on common attributes.
Social categorisation
The theory that people favour ingroups over outgroups in order to enhance their self-esteem.
Social identity theory
A theory proposing that the relative status and competition between groups influence group stereotypes along the dimensions of competence and warmth.
Stereotype content model
The tendency to assume that there is greater similarity among members of outgroups than among members of ingroups.
Outgroup homogeneity effect
Perceiving or treating humans as if they were objects or animals.
Dehumanising
A desire to see one’s ingroup as dominant over other groups, and a willingness to adopt cultural values that facilitate oppression over other groups.
Social dominance orientation
A shared aim that can be achieved only through cooperation among individuals or groups.
Superordinate goal
A belief or association that links a whole group of people with certain traits or characteristics.
Stereotype
A form of prejudice that surfaces in subtle ways when it is safe, socially acceptable and easy to rationalise.
Modern racism
Negative affective feelings towards certain people based on them being members of a certain group.
Prejudice
Race-based bias that operates unconsciously and unintentionally.
Implicit race-based bias
Behaviour directed against people based on them being members of a certain group.
Discrimination
Racism that concerns the ambivalence between fair-minded attitudes and beliefs, and unconscious and unrecognised prejudicial feelings and beliefs.
Aversive racism
The theory that hostility between groups is caused by direct competition for limited resources.
Realistic conflict theory
People with which an individual does not feel a sense of membership, belonging or identity.
Outgroups
People with which an individual feels a sense of membership, belonging and identity.
Ingroups
A theory that proposes that people are motivated (at least in part) to defend and justify the existing social, political and economic conditions
System justification theory
Feelings of discontent aroused by the belief that one fares poorly compared with others.
Relative deprivation
