SOCI 230 Lecture Notes - Lecture 10: Gordon Allport, Sexual Orientation
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Antipathy, hostility, hatred, intolerance, or aggressiveness toward out group-members. Result of innate dispositions, certain personality types (e. g. authoritarian) and social experience) Stereotypes~ generalization about the average characteristic of members of a group. Professors ( unfriendly, stuffy, intelligent, liberal, strict, stubborn) Stereotypes can be both positive or negative: weight can fall in one corner or another. Generalization that we are making about particular group based on characteristics and attributes people associate with. Unequal treatment of individual or groups on the basis of some social characteristic. Unequal treatment on basis of race resulting in disadvantage for a racial group. Unequal treatment not base on race but on some other factor, which ultimately results in disadvantages for a racial group. E. g stricter sentencing for dealing/ usage of crack vs. cocaine. Occur because of different treatment or different effect. Differential treatment: intentional on person treating group differently. Unequal treatment from person belong to a specific group. Person discriminating may not mean to be discriminatory.
