Transcript Discrimination and Prejudice

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Patterns of intergroup relations
*Is the denial of equal treatment to
individuals based on their group
membership.
*Involves behavior
*Can be individual or societal
*In most extreme form can lead to
physical harm or even death
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* Upheld by law
* Examples:
* the apartheid system in
South Africa.
* Women in the U.S. prior
* Is an product of the
structure of a society.
* In this case it becomes a
part of a society.
to 1920
* African Americans and
the Jim Crow laws
* Example: leads to lowincome communities.
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* Protestors to Brown v Board of
Education (1956) ended practice of
separate-but-equal in the U.S.
schools.
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* Definition: An unsupported generalization
about a category of people.
* Prejudice refers to attitudes.
* You can be prejudiced for or against something.
* Sociologists focus on the negative attitudes.
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* Stereotype is an oversimplified, exaggerated,
or unfavorable generalization about a group of
people.
* Examples: All Irish people have bad tempers, all
Jewish people are cheap.
* Consequences: If people are told often enough
and long enough that they, or others are socially,
mentally, or physically inferior, they may come to
believe it.
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* Robert K. Merton
* A prediction that
results in behavior that
makes the prediction
come true.
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* The belief that one’s own race or ethnic group
is naturally superior to other races or ethnic
groups.
* Throughout history, racism has been used as a
justification for atrocities such as slavery and
genocide.
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Prejudice and discrimination are
related, but they do not always go
hand-in-hand.
Individuals can combine discrimination
and prejudice in four possible ways.
*Prejudiced and
openly
discriminates
against others.
*Prejudiced but is
afraid to
discriminate
because of
societal pressure.
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*Not prejudiced
but discriminates
anyway because
of societal
pressure.
*Not prejudiced
and does not
discriminate.
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* What is the difference between discrimination
and prejudice? Give an example to illustrate
the difference.
* Is it possible to be both prejudiced and be
discriminatory? Prejudiced but not
discriminatory? Explain.
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