SOCI 230 Lecture Notes - Lecture 10: Gordon Allport
15 Feb 2017
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January 31, 2017: stems from socialization (media) and history, social-psychological perspective (gordon allport, antipathy, hostility, hatred, intolerance, or aggressiveness towards out-group members, located within individual. Results of innate dispositions, certain personality types (e. g. authoritarian), and social experience. Relationship between group stereotype and prejudice: stereotype generalizations about the average characteristics of members of a group, attributes or salient characteristics of a group. Dependent on men/less capable than men: cognitive source of prejudice, stereotypes reinforce effects. What is discrimination: unequal treatment of individuals or groups on the basis of some social characteristic, many forms of discrimination gender, class, sexual orientation, race, ethnicity, weight, religion, class, etc, differential treatment. Unequal treatment on basis of race resulting in disadvantage for a racial group. Stems from the person belonging to a particular racial group: differential effect. Unequal treatment may have nothing to do with racial group membership, but the effect/outcome results in racial discrimination. Coke is usually used by elite whites.
