Hate, Stereotyping, & Prejudice

Looking Without, Looking Within

1) Asian American

2) Hispanic

3) Gay Man

4) Woman over 80

Prejudice(Allport – 1954)1) An antipathy based on faulty and inflexible generalizations

2) Can be felt covertly or expressed overtly

3) Can be direct towards a group as a whole, or toward an individual because s/he is a member of that group

Four Theories ofPrejudice

Exploitation Theory1) Power is a Scarce Source

2) People innately want to keep their power and status

3) So people suppress the social mobility of the out-group

Scapegoating Theory1) Prejudiced People are the True Victims

2) They refuse to accept basic responsibility for some society failure (defeat in war / depression)

3) So they shift focus of responsibility to an out-group

Authoritarian Personality Theory

1) Person comes from a strict authoritarian background2) When that person grows up s/he wants to be the authoritarian of those around them

3) So this person subjects people in an out-group (who are seen as weaker) to their will

Structural Theory1) Social climate either promotes cultural and ethnic tolerance or intolerance

2) Is their obvious equality – if not people will subjugate others around them

3) Is there a definite hierarchy with a clear pecking order?

What Do PeopleWho Are PrejudiceReceive From Their

Prejudice?

Ego-Defense Function

Protects people’s view of themselves on both a personal and social identity level

Value-Expressive Function

People need to have value and behavioral consistencies in viewing their own cultural values, norms, and practices as the proper & civilized ways of thinking and behaving.

Knowledge Function1) It takes time and energy to create knowledge

2) People tend to want to defend their knowledge base

3) So, people view others who lack such knowledge as ignorant or deficient

Utilitarian Function1) Protecting the majority (In-Group) will make things easier on their life

2) In fact, they may be rewarded for doing protecting the in-group

When PrejudiceMeets

Discrimination

PREJUDICE

DISCRIMINATION

YES

NO

ActiveBigot

YES NO

Fair-Weather

Liberal

TimidBigot

ProactiveChangeAgents

STEREOTYPING

DEALINGWITH

PREJUDICE

1) We must be honest with ourselves – confront our on biases and ethnocentric attitudes

2) We should question the contents of our stereotypes and check against our actual interactions with out-group members

3) We should understand how our negative images concerning out-group members affects our biased attitudes and interactions

4) Use the principle of heterogeneity to break down the broad social categories

5) We should use mindful qualifying language when describing out-group/others’ behaviors.

6) We should put ourselves in frequent inter-group contact situations to become comfortable with group-based differences

Story of Leo Frank

RACISM

WHAT IS RACE?

Physiological shifts of the species that have

occurred from mutation, selection, migration, and

genetic drifts

Stupid Minor Differences(aka Finger Prints)

Loops – Europeans, black Africans, East Asians

Whorls – Mongolians and Australia Aborigines

Arches – Khoisans & Central Europeans

Realistic Outlook on RaceJared Diamond (1994)

1. Khoisans of South Africa

2. African Blacks – would form 3 distinct races alone

3. The REST of the World – Norwegians, Europeans, Navajo, Greeks, Japanese, Australian Aborigines

Forms of

Racism

1) Familiar & Unfamiliara. No Grudgesb. We just don’t know much about others

2) Real likes & Dislikes a. Out-group members are tolerated b. Certain behaviors are not

3) Arm’s Length a. We act with out-groups on in certain situations – work

1) Tokenisma. People who insincerely display acts of

accommodation to out-group members2) Symbolic a. No overt hate or violence b. People just prefer not to interact with

others 3) Redneck a. Members of certain cultures should

be sent back where they came from

LEVELS OF

RACISM

1. Institutional – Jim Crow Laws

2. Collectivism – KKK

3. Individual – One person’s racism

HATE

MUTEDGROUPTHEORY

Three Basic Features1) Language names experiences which determines what is socially recognized

2) Dominant discourse silences, or mutes, groups that are not in society’s mainstream – often are invisible to Dominant Culture

3) Out-groups react to being muted in different fashions

5 Coping Strategies1. Passing

2. Tomming

3. Shucking

4. Dissembling

5. Transforming

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