PSYC 241 Chapter Notes - Chapter 11: Social Dominance Orientation, Authoritarian Personality, Social Forces
5 Dec 2016
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Prejudice: a negative prejudgment of a group and its members, an attitude (combination of affect, behaviour tendency, and cognition) Stereotypes: generalized beliefs about a group of people. Can be inaccurate and resistant to new information: this can be bad because we attribute differences to biology, ignoring social forces. Discrimination: negative behaviour toward a group/its members. Individual prejudicial attitudes and discriminatory behaviour towards a certain race/sex. Institutional practices that subordinate people of a race/sex. Subtle (modern racism: prejudiced attitudes surface when they can hide behind another motive, often appears in our preferences for what is familiar, similar, and comfortable. Implicit attitudes that we are unaware of: when primed/activated, can affect our behaviour. Justifying social inequalities/maintaining them: e. g. upper-(cid:272)lass people thi(cid:374)k the(cid:455)"re harder workers, (cid:272)olo(cid:374)izers des(cid:272)ri(cid:271)e the (cid:272)olo(cid:374)ized as inferior or requiring protection, people we see as competent are usually less likeable, and vice versa.
