Week 8 Flashcards
(54 cards)
What are some of the pervasive prejudices based on?
- Gender
- Race
- Ethnicity
- Age
- Sexual orientation
- Physical Handicap
- Mental handicaps
In most Western nations, have prejudices reduced in recent years?
Yes due to legisation and social attitudes.
Have legislation and social disapproval inhibited the more extreme forms of prejudice?
Yes.
What do expalantions for prejudice overlook?
They overlook the fact that people communicate with one another and are influence by propaganda and massed communication
Do explanations of prejudice explain the widespread collectivist nature of prejudice?
No.
Does the presence of a social environment that encoirgaes prejudice a determinant?
Yes, much stronger and more diagnostic determinant.
When is prejudice more difficult to detect?
When it is expressed covertly or in restricted contexts and it may go almost unnoticed as it is embedded in ordinary everyday assumptions, language and discourse.
How can victims of prejudice suffer?
The victims of prejudice can suffer material and psychological disadvantage, low self esteem, stigma, depressed aspirations, and physical and verbal abus. In its most extreme form prejudice can express itself as dehumanization and genocide.
How can prejudice be expressed in the most extreme form?
Dehumanisation and genocide.
What may prejudice be and how can other people be scapegoats?
Prejudice may be a relatively ordinary reaction to frustrated goals, in which people vent their aggression on weaker groups, which serve as scapegoats for the original source of frustration.
Can all prejudice be explained through the ideas of scapegoats?
No.
How can prejudice be considered an attitude?
Prejudice can be considered to be an attitude about a social group.
What is it called when prejudice is expressed as an behaviour?
It is called discrimination.
What is prejudice?
Prejudice is an unfavourable attitude towards a social group and its members.
How do we learn prejudice?
Attitudes are learnt and therefore we learn discrimination.
According to Vaughan and Hogg, what are two of the biggest social issues today?
Prejudice and discrimination.
Do most of us face discrimination in some way or another?
Yes.
What is genocide?
Genocide is the ultimate expression of prejudice by exterminating an entire social group.
What is dehumanisation?
Dehumanisation is stripping people of their dignity and humanity.
What is sexism?
Sexism is that prejudice and discrimination against people based on their gender.
What are four ways that sexism can be seen?
Gender stereotypes, gender roles, glass ceilings and glass cliff.
Do gender stereotypes exist?
Yes.
How do gender stereotypes increase sexism?
. Female stereotypical traits are less valued than male stereotypical traits.
What is a gender role?
Gender role is a gender-stereotypical attributes of a person.