Race And Ethnicity

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Describes a group that is set apart from othersbecause of physical differences that have taken onsocial significance.

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Racial Group

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is set apart from others primarily because of itsnational origin or distinctive cultural pattern

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Ethnic Group?

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 A subordinate group whose members havesignificantly less control or power over their ownlives than the members of a dominant or majoritygroup have over theirs

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Minority Group?

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Five Basic Properties of aMinority Group

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Unequal TreatmentPhysical or Cultural TraitsAscribed StatusSolidarityIn-group Marriage

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Unreliable generalizations about all members of agroup that do not recognize individual differenceswithin the group.

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Stereotypes

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The Stability of Stereotypes

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1. When people encounter instances that disconfirmtheir stereotypes of a particular group, they tend toassume that those instances are atypical subtypesof the group.

2: People’s perceptions are influenced by theirexpectations.

3: People selectively recall instances that confirmtheir stereotypes and forget about disconfirminginstances

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They allow people to quickly process newinformation about an event or person.

They organize people’s past experiences.

They help people to meaningfully assessdifferences between individuals and groups.They help people to make predictions aboutother people’s behavior.

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Functions of Stereotypes:

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 They cause people to exaggerate differencesamong groups.

 They lead people to focus selectively oninformation that agrees with the stereotypeand ignore information that disagrees with it. They tend to make people see other groups asoverly homogenous, even though people caneasily see that the groups they belong to areheterogeneous

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Dangers of Stereotypes:

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A negative attitude, belief or feeling toward aparticular group of individuals or an entirecategory of people, often an ethnic or racialminority.

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Prejudice

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sometimes result fromethnocentrism.

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Prejudice

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is a destructive phenomenon, andit is pervasive because it serves manypsychological, social, and economicfunctions.

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Prejudice

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Functions of Prejudice:

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1. Prejudice allows people to avoid doubt and fear

2. Prejudice gives people scapegoats toblame in times of trouble.

3. Prejudice can boost self-esteem

4. Evolutionary psychologists suggestthat prejudice allows people to bondwith their own group by contrastingtheir own groups to outsider groups.

5. Prejudice legitimizes discriminationbecause it apparently justifies onegroup’s dominance over another.

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The denial of opportunities and equal rightsto individuals and groups because ofprejudice or other arbitrary reasons.

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Discrimination

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Blaming a relatively powerless innocentperson for something that is not his or herfault

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“Scapegoating”.

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Refers to the physical separation of twogroups of people in terms of residence,workplace and social events.

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Segregation

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It is how beliefs create reality

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Self-fulfilling Prophecy