SOC 001 Lecture Notes - Lecture 8: Pearl Harbor, Stepfamily, Reverse Discrimination

• School: College of The Sequoias
• Department: Sociology (SOC)
• Course: SOC 001
• Professor: Bellin

Document Summary

Stereotypes are a way in which we make the world around us make sense; we look for patterns around categories: they can be negative, positive or neutral (but even the positive stereotypes are bad) Equal prejudice: anti semitic, black, gay, female, male, rich, republican, latino, white, Catholic, asian, etc (you can be prejudiced against anyone, but are all prejudices created equally?: power dynamics make it so that certain prejudices are different in different circumstances. Asian-americans found success in the us and should serve as a lesson to other racial and ethnic minority groups. Affirmative action: a quota system where you take a certain number of jobs and you set them aside for women and racial minorities (takes away from white males so then it is discriminating against them) -a system that has been relatively ineffective in combatting racism, sexism, and prejudice in the. The bakke case (1979) struck down any legal form of quota.