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chapter 3 cult. diversity
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Undergraduate 1
02/26/2007

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Ralph Rosudice
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expanded the definition of prejudice to include “any unreasonable attitude that is unusually resistant to rational influence
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Prejudice
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One who hastily reached a conclusion before examining the facts.
•Prejudice may be the result of frustration
•Prejudice exists on three levels
•Prejudice may be either positive or negative
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Cognitive Level
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beliefs and perceptions about other racial or ethnic groups.
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Cognitive Level
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beliefs and perceptions about other racial or ethnic groups.
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Emotional Level
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encompasses the feelings that a minority group arouses in an individual.
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Emotional Level
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encompasses the feelings that a minority group arouses in an individual.
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Action-Orientation Level-
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the positive or negative predisposition to engage in discriminatory behavior
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Self Justification
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involves denigrating a person or group to justify maltreatment of them.
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Self Justification
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involves denigrating a person or group to justify maltreatment of them.
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Authoritarian Personality
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A set of distinct personality traits, including conformity, insecurity, and intolerance, said to be common to many prejudiced people
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A person with authoritarian personality is probably
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•The recipient of a harsh upbringing
•Lower class
•Not well educated
•Intolerant
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Frustration
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frustration is the result of relative deprivation in which expectations remain unsatisfied.
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Relative derivation
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a lack of resources, or rewards in one’s standard of living in comparison with those of others in the society
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Scapegoating
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blaming others for something that is not their fault
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Scapegoating
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blaming others for something that is not their fault
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Talcott Parsons
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developed a concept that linked the psychological and sociological aspects of frustration- aggression called free floating
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Free Floating
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susceptible to redirection against convenient scapegoat.
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Socialization Process
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acquire the values, attitudes, beliefs, and perceptions of their culture or subculture, including religion, nationality, and social class.
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Jim Crow laws
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establishing segregated public facilities throughout the south, which subsequent generations accepted as proper and maintained in their own adult lives
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Economic Competition
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People tend to be more hostile towards others when they feel their security is threatened.
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Social Norms
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form the generally shared rules defining what is and is not proper behavior in one’s culture
*Stereotyping can be both negative and positive
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Stereotyping
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an oversimplified generalization by which we attribute certain traits or characteristics to a group without regard to individual differences.
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Characteristics of stereotyping
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1.Oversimplified generalization
2.Emphasizes variance from societal norms
3. Once established, difficult to eradicate
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Ethnophaulisms
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a derogatory word or expression used to describe a racial ethnic group
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ethnic joke
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undetermined the stereotype by ridiculing it
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Studies of television programming
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reveals perpetuation of sexual and racial stereotypes
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Jigsaw Method
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a teaching technique that creates interdependent cooperative learning groups
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Discrimination
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actual behavior, the practice of differential and unequal treatment of other groups of people, usually along racial, religious, or ethnic lines
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5 Levels of Discrimination
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1.Verbal expression- a statement of dislike or the use of derogatory term
2.Avoidance- prejudice person takes steps to avoid social interactions with a group
3.Exclusion- from jobs, housing, education, and social organizations occur
4.Physical abuse- violent attacks on people of a disliked group
5.Extermination- massacres, genocide, or porgoms conducted against a people
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4 types of people
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Non-Prejudice Nondiscriminator
Nonprejudice Discrimitory
Prejudice nondiscrimitory
Prejudice Discrimitor
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Social Discrimination
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the creation of “social distance” between groups
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Institutional Discrimination-
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unequal treatments of subordinate groups inherent in the outgoing operations of society’s institutions
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Affirmative Actions
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it stimulated that government would “take affirmative action that applicants are employed and that employees are treated during employment, without regards of their race, creed, color, or national origin
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Racial Profiling
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refers to action taken by law enforcement officials on the erroneous presumptions that individuals of one race or ethnicity are more likely to engage in illegal activity that individuals of other races or ethnicities.
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The Bakke decision
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reaffirmed race, but not quotas, as a factor in college admissions.
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Racial profiling
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is prejudiced
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