SOC 2 Lecture Notes - Lecture 19: Implicit Stereotype, Societal Racism, Stereotype Threat
DAY 19: 3/13/18 IMPLICIT BIAS
• Stereotype: a one-sided, exaggerated, and prejudicial view of a group
• Consequences of a stereotype:
1. Self-fulfilling prophecy: the expectation becomes true
2. Stereotype threat
a. The social-psychological threat that arises when one is in a
situation or doing something for which a negative stereotype about
one’s group applies
b. A product of social forces
c. Builds on stereotypes, the generalized other, and the looking-glass
self
d. Anyone can be victimized from this if the situation is given;
however, the level of consequences vary
3. Implicit bias: discriminatory bias based on attitudes, assumptions, and
stereotypes that lie outside our conscious attentional focus
• Implicit bias
• Can produce behavior that diverges from the ideal behavior we behave in
• Meaningful manifestations of cultural norms
• Real and pervasive; very difficult to change
• Sources of implicit bias
• 1. Early experiences
• 2. Systematic cultural bias (mundane, daily interaction/socialization)
• Addressing Implicit Bias
DAY 20: 3/15/18 WRAP-UP & REVIEW
• Implicit bias vs. “-isms”
• “-isms”
• Sets of social relationships and power inequalities that
systematically advantage members of one group and disadvantage
members of other groups in the same category of identity
• About social structure; more than just group-based prejudice and
discrimination
• Ex. Race and inequality
• Racial prejudice: attitude that one racial group is superior to another
• Racial stereotypes: one-sided prejudicial views of ethnic views
• Racial discrimination: value one racial group over another based on
prejudice
• Racism: sets of social relationships and power and inequality that
systematically advantage white people over other ethnic groups
• Structural racism in the legal system
• Af. Am. get significantly longer sentences than white
offenders for the same crime
• Social structures
• Pretrial release (race affects ability to obtain this)
• Surveillance of communities of color
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