Transcript the discriminatory acts of one race or ethnic group against another

Racial / Ethnic
Prejudice and Discrimination
I. Stereotypes, Prejudice, and Discrimination
A. Stereotype: a generalized belief about a group of people in
which identical characteristics are assigned to virtually all
members of the group, regardless of actual variation among the
members.
B. Prejudice: an attitude or feeling, favorable or unfavorable,
toward a person or group of people, prior to, or not based on,
actual experience.
C. Discrimination: an unjustified negative or harmful behavior
toward a member or members of a group simply because of
their membership in that group.
II. Racism: an individual’s or group’s prejudicial
attitudes and discriminatory behaviors toward
people of a given race or ethnicity.
A. Individual Racism: the racist acts of one person based on
conscious or unconscious prejudice.
B. Institutional Racism: when economic, educational, political,
social, and corporate institutions favor one race or ethnicity
over another.
C. Cultural Racism: the discriminatory acts of one race or
ethnic group against another race or ethnic group, at times
attempting to change or eliminate the other group.
D. Racial Discrimination… Does it still exist?
E. Are most people individual racists?
1) Subtle Racism
2) Automatic Racism
The Implicit
Attitude Test
III. Key Motivational & Cognitive Influences in
Prejudice and Discrimination
A. Scapegoating: the idea that you use a particular person or
group of people (usually people not in a position to effectively
retaliate) to act out aggression upon in order to vent frustration.
B. Evolutionary Survival Instinct: difference is a sign of
danger.
C. The Ultimate Attribution Error: the tendency to make
dispositional attributions from one individual’s characteristics
or behavior to an entire group of people.
IV. Prejudice and Discrimination:
Remedies
A. Contact Hypothesis: the idea that prejudice and
discrimination will decline as we have more contact with
people who we would have discriminated against.
B. Mutual Interdependence: the need to depend on each
other to accomplish a goal that is important to each group.
Both contact and mutual interdependence
combined is most effective in reducing Prejudice
and Discrimination.
Robbers Cave Experiment