1. Race & Ethnicity
PART 2 – STEREOTYPES, PREJUDICES, & DISCRIMINATION
CHRISTINE MONNIER

2. Stereotype
Overgeneralizations
about the appearance,
behavior, or other
characteristics of
members of particular
categories.

3. Prejudice
A prejudice is a negative
attitude based on faulty
generalizations about
members of specific
racial, ethnic, or other
groups.

4. Racism
Racism is a set of attitudes,
beliefs, and practices that is
used to justify the superior
treatment of one racial or
ethnic group and the inferior
treatment of another racial
or ethnic group.

5. Theories of Prejudice
Frustration-Aggression /
Scapegoating
Social Learning
The Authoritarian
Personality

6. Discrimination
Discrimination involves
actions or practices of
dominant-group
members (or their
representatives) that
have a harmful effect on
members of a
subordinate group.

7. Discrimination
Individual: one-on-one acts by
members of the dominant group that
harm members of the subordinate
group or their property.
Institutional: the day-to-day practices
of organizations and institutions that
have a harmful effect on members of
subordinate groups.

8. Discrimination
Merton’s Typology of attitude v. behavior
Prejudiced Attitude?
Yes No
Discriminatory
Behavior?
Yes Prejudiced discriminator Unprejudiced
discriminator
No Prejudiced non-
discriminator
Unprejudiced non-
discriminator

9. Discrimination
Joe Feagin’s four major
types of discrimination:
1. Isolate discrimination
2. Small-group discrimination
3. Direct institutionalized
discrimination
4. Indirect institutionalized
discrimination