A S L 3 Lecture Notes - Lecture 30: Aversive Racism, Class Conflict, Ethnocentrism
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Simplified but widely shared beliefs about characteristics of groups and their members. Negative affective reaction to a group (emotional aspect) Treating an individual badly because of their group membership (behavioural aspect) Stereotypes assume a correlation between group membership and individuals" characteristics. We are sensitive to distinctive events so when two distinctive events occur together. People are more accurate at accessing common events. Mere act of categorisation can distort perceptions of groups. Differences between categories maximised, differences within categories minimised. Need for personal structure: people have a preference for some sort of structure in most situation relates to stereotyping. Need for cognitive closure: desire to seek an answer over ambiguity associated with prejudice and stereotyping. Class conflict stems from the ruling class exploiting the working class. Unequal class system is preserved by false consciousness; ideologies such as the protestant work ethic keeping people in their places. Class consciousness emerges when people become aware.
