The document defines prejudice as a judgment formed before considering the facts that puts others at an unjust disadvantage. It discusses how prejudice arises from sources like socialization, competition over resources, and social learning of negative attitudes. Prejudice contains attitudes of favor/disfavor related to overgeneralized beliefs about social groups. The document also outlines steps that can be taken to reduce prejudice, such as direct intergroup contact, recategorization of groups, and cognitive interventions to reduce stereotyping.
Attributions are inferences that people make about the causes of events and behavior. People make attributions in order to understand their experiences. Attributions strongly influence the way people interact with others.
prosocialbehaviour
Voluntary actions that are intended to help or benefit another individual or group of individuals”
It is performed to benefit others by helping, sharing or comforting.
ALTRUISM:
Behavior that is motivated by an unselfish concern for the welfare of others.
When one person helps another person for
no reward, and even at some cost to oneself. This cost can be time, energy, effort or wealth etc.
Altruism involves no benefit of helper and hence it is selfless help.
According to psychologist Gordon Allport, social psychology is a discipline that uses scientific methods "to understand and explain how the thought, feeling and behavior of individuals are influenced by the actual, imagined or implied presence of other human beings" (1985).
Briefly this field has been discussed.
Attributions are inferences that people make about the causes of events and behavior. People make attributions in order to understand their experiences. Attributions strongly influence the way people interact with others.
prosocialbehaviour
Voluntary actions that are intended to help or benefit another individual or group of individuals”
It is performed to benefit others by helping, sharing or comforting.
ALTRUISM:
Behavior that is motivated by an unselfish concern for the welfare of others.
When one person helps another person for
no reward, and even at some cost to oneself. This cost can be time, energy, effort or wealth etc.
Altruism involves no benefit of helper and hence it is selfless help.
According to psychologist Gordon Allport, social psychology is a discipline that uses scientific methods "to understand and explain how the thought, feeling and behavior of individuals are influenced by the actual, imagined or implied presence of other human beings" (1985).
Briefly this field has been discussed.
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COMMON SENSE PSYCHOLOGY
CORRESPONDENT INFERENCE THEORY
COVARIENCE MODEL
CONSENSUS
CONSISTENCY
DISTINCTIVENESS
FUNDAMENTAL ATTRIBUTION ERROR
ACTOR OBSERVER EFFECT
SELF SERVING BIAS
AND APPLICATIONS
WILL COVER
COMMON SENSE PSYCHOLOGY
CORRESPONDENT INFERENCE THEORY
COVARIENCE MODEL
CONSENSUS
CONSISTENCY
DISTINCTIVENESS
FUNDAMENTAL ATTRIBUTION ERROR
ACTOR OBSERVER EFFECT
SELF SERVING BIAS
AND APPLICATIONS
Cultural Emotions Pain, Hate, Fear, Disgust, Shame, Love OllieShoresna
Cultural Emotions:
Pain, Hate, Fear, Disgust, Shame, Love
Ted Manley, Jr. PhD
Cultural Emotion
PAIN
(Meriam Webster)
1 : punishment ·the pains and penalties of crime
2 a : usually localized physical suffering associated with bodily disorder (such as a disease or an injury) ·the pain of a twisted ankle
also : a basic bodily sensation induced by a noxious stimulus, received by naked nerve endings, characterized by physical discomfort (such as pricking, throbbing, or aching), and typically leading to evasive action ·the pain of bee stings
b : acute mental or emotional distress or suffering : grief
Sociology of Pain
Pain: A Sociological Introduction, Elaine Denny (2016)
Intersection between biology and culture (Medical Model vs Sociology Model of managing pain)
Much pain is experienced as short lived, and self-limiting or easily treated, but for those individuals who live with long term and intractable pain it can cause disruption of life as it is currently lived and alter their expectations of the future.
Sociological research has, for example, shown how men and women approach and experience pain differently, seeking to explain why women more than men report more long term and disabling pain than men. A strength of a sociological understanding of pain is that it encompasses both the interpretive perspective of the person in pain and the structural factors that influence this, offering an explanation of the way that these intersect.
Cultural Emotion
HATE
(Meriam Webster)
Intense hostility and aversion usually deriving from fear, anger, or sense of injury.
b : extreme dislike or disgust : antipathy, loathing.
The Sociology of Hate
Stereotypes
Cognitive
Prejudice
Affective
Discrimination
Behavioral
Gordon Allport (1954?:1958; 1979): The Nature of Prejudice
“Open-mindedness is considered to be a virtue. But, strictly speaking, it cannot occur. A new experience must be redacted into old categories. We cannot handle each even freshly in its own right (Allport, 1954, p. 19)
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The Big Three
Three main topics in the psychology of racism: Stereotypes, Prejudice, and Discrimination
Stereotypes:
Stereotypes
Stereotypes categorize people according to social factors
Definition: “A cognitive structure that contains the perceiver’s knowledge, beliefs, and expectancies about some human group” (Hamilton & Trolier, 1986, p. 133).
Stereotypes are necessary
The content of stereotypes can be the problem
Outcome
Most insidious stereotypes = create, maintain, or strengthen social hierarchy
Outcomes of racial/ ethnic stereotypes
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Categorize based on age, gender, social role, physical appearance, or relation to self
Definition: “A cognitive structure that contains the perceiver’s knowledge, beliefs, and expectancies about some human group” (Hamilton & Trolier, 1986, p. 133).
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Chapter 4Understanding Racism, Prejudice, and White Privilege4-WilheminaRossi174
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Hoyt Jr. (2012) defines racism as “a particular form of prejudice defined by preconceived erroneous beliefs about race and members of racial groups.” It is supported simultaneously by individuals, the institutional practices of society, and dominant cultural values and norms. Racism is a universal phenomenon that exists across cultures and tends to emerge wherever ethnic diversity and perceived or real differences in group characteristics become part of a struggle for social power. In the case of the United States, African Americans, Latinos/as, Native Americans, and Asian Americans—groups that we have been referring to as people of color—have been systematically subordinated by the white majority.
There are four important points to be made initially about racism:
· Prejudice and racism are not the same thing. Prejudice is a negative, inaccurate, rigid, and unfair way of thinking about members of another group. All human beings hold prejudices. This is true for people of color, as well as for majority group members. But there is a crucial difference between the prejudices held by whites and those held by people of color. whites have more power to enact their prejudices and therefore negatively impact the lives of people of color than vice versa. The term racism is used in relation to the racial attitudes and behavior of majority group members. Similar attitudes and behaviors on the part of people of color are referred to as prejudice and discrimination (a term commonly used to mean actions taken on the basis of one’s prejudices). Another way of describing this relationship is that prejudice plus power equals racism.
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2. What is Prejudice?
The word prejudice is derived from the Latin noun
praejudicium (prejudjement) , which means a judgment based
on previous decision sand experiences.
Acquired the meaning of a judgment formed before due
examination and consideration of the facts - a premature
judgment.
Allport (1954): Prejudice as a hostile attitude or feeling toward a
person solely.
Thinking ill of others without sufficient warrant.
3. Defining prejudice
Allport : Ethnic prejudice is an antipathy based
upon a faulty and inflexible generalization.
It is a judgement that resists facts and ignores
truth and honesty
It may be felt or expressed.
It may be directed towards a group as a whole or
towards an individual because he is a member of
that group.
Prejudice gives an individual a false sense of
identity and self worth
Gordon
Allport
4. More definitions
Worchel et al. (1988): an unjustified negative attitude
toward an individual based solely on that individual's
membership in a group.
Brown (1995): the holding of derogatory social
attitudes or cognitive beliefs, the expression of
negative affect, or the display of hostile or
discriminatory behaviour towards members of a group
on account of their membership of that group.
5. Allport Revisited
Two important elements in his definition of
prejudice:
Prejudice is a negative attitude
Prejudice puts the object of prejudice at an unjust
disadvantage (i.e., prejudice is negative, unjust, and a
source of disadvantage for its targets)
6. Prejudice contains two essential ingredients:
1. There must be an attitude of favor or disfavor
2. It must be related to an overgeneralized - and
therefore erroneous - belief.
Beliefs, to some extent, can be rationally attacked and altered;
Attitudes are ordinarily far more resilient and resistant to
change.
8. 1. Competition:
Realistic conflict theory: Prejudice sometimes originate
from direct competition between various social groups
over scarce & valued resources
Simple competition relatively free from hatred gradually
developed into full scale emotion laden prejudice
As competition persists, individuals come to perceive
each
other in increasingly –ve ways
9. 2. The role of social learning
Children acquire –ve attitudes towards various social groups
because they hear such views expressed by parents, friends,
teachers & others and because they are directly rewarded (with
love,praise & approval) for adopting their views.
3. Social Categorisation:
People generally devide the social world into two distinct cate-
gories –Us(ingroup) and them(outgroup)
Sharply contrasting feelings & beliefs are usually attached to
members of one’s ingroup & members of various outgroups
10. 4. The role of Stereotype:
Once an individual has acquired a stereotype about some
social groups, he tends to notice information that fits readily
into this cognitive framework & to remember ‘facts’ that are
consistent with it more readily than ‘facts’ that are inconsistent.
as a result, the Stereotype becomes, to a large degree,
self-confirming.
11. 5. Role of Illusory Correlations & Outgroup Homogeneity:
-Illusory Correlations:
-Perception of stronger association
between two variables than actually exists, occurs because
each variable is distinctive and their apparent correlation is
readily entered into and retrieved from memory.
-It explains why –ve behaviour & tendencies are often
attributed by majority group members to the members of
various minority groups.
-Illusion of Outgroup Homogeneity:
-The tendency to perceive members of outgroups as more similar
to one another(more homogenous) than members of one’s own
ingroup.
12. Elements of prejudice
1. Prejudice as an intergroup phenomenon
Always involves comparison/judgement based on
group membership (he is a martian; martians are evil;
thus he is evil)
Often involves comparisons between groups
(martians enslaved us 5000 years ago; therefore we
hate martians)
Rarely involve personal characteristics (mostly based
on stereotyping and other processes which consider
people as exemplars of groups rather than unique
entities)
13. Elements of prejudice
2. Prejudice as negative orientation
Prejudice considered as being against or opposed to
something
Can't I be prejudiced in favour of a group?
Social Problems school: social psychology should be
about solving problems, so we deal with negative
aspects
14. Elements of prejudice
3. Prejudice as a bad thing
Social problems school: prejudice is bad because it violates
norms of thinking (it is rigid, overgeneralizes, etc.)
Del Boca’s (1981) argument against psychologists
calling prejudice ‘bad’:
It is not scientifically parsimonious (gets you nowhere)
The processes that lead to prejudice are natural and normal
There is no evidence to show that prejudice is more rigid or
pathological that other attitudes like liberalism
15. Elements of prejudice
4. Prejudice as an attitude
An attitude is an enduring structure which includes
emotional, cognitive and behavioral aspects, and
changes with experience
Need to consider all three parts when discussing
prejudice
Emotional – anger, fear, anxiety, etc
Cognitive – knowledge about the group, inferences
Behavioral – speech, avoidance and other external behavior
17. Ethnocentrism
(Wade and Tavris, 1999)
The belief that one’s own cultural or ethnic group is
superior to all others
Examples:
Chinese word for China = Center of the World
Manifested in beliefs that 1 sex, ethnicity, religion,
school, community, country, SES, etc. is better
than another
18. Stereotypes
(Wade and Tavris 2000)
Definition: summary
impression of a group of
people in which a person
believes that all
members of a group
share a common trait or
traits
Distortions Created by
Stereotypes
Accentuation of group
differences
Production of selective
perception
Underestimation of
within group
differences
19. Discrimination
“Discrimination consists of negative behavior toward
a person based on negative attitudes one holds
toward the group to which the person belongs, or,
positive behavior toward a person based on positive
attributes one holds toward the group to which that
person belongs.” (In Prejudice and Racism; Jones, 1997)
20. MANIFESTATION OF PREJUDICE
By Allport
1.Spoke Abuse( Antilocution)- ex:criticise
2. Avoidance (e.g. widow, SC, etc.)
3. Discrimination or legalized racism (e.g. female
in rural area)
4. Violence against people and property-Physical
Attack
5. Extermination or genocide (e.g. ethnic
cleansing)
21. What do prejudiced people do?
Allport's (1954) hierarchy of prejudiced actions
ExterminationAntilocution
Discrimination Physical
Attack
Avoidance
Least
prejudiced
Most prejudiced
These actions only affect
the prejudiced person
These actions affect
the targeted person
22. Effects on the prejudiced person:
Positive effects
Intra-personal effects (personal effects)
Increase in status in own group
provided prejudiced behaviour is a group norm
Create a sense of belonging
emphasizes us/them distinction
Avoid a sense of inferiority “At least I’m not a…”
Works because inferiority is a commonly perceived trait of
target groups
Material group gains
Specifically for majority groups
Spoils of discriminatory economic practices
23. Effects on the prejudiced person:
Negative effects
Curtailment of individual personality
Won't adopt tendencies/attitudes perceived as opposed to
the group
Fear of ostracism by group
Conflict with value systems
Dilemmas set up by own values / group values
Especially true for religious beliefs
Restriction of talent or social advances
Disallowing oneself privileges by own actions
Loss of freedom to pursue particular activities or hold
particular attitudes
24. Measuring prejudice: Scales
Many scales, eg
Duckitt's Subtle
Racism Scale;
Landis' Social Climate
Survey
Likert type statement
agreement scales
27. Instructors predominantly used
male pronouns in class
44. Racial/ethinc jokes were
frequently heard at meetings of
campus social organizations.
69. A white student said to a friend,
"this would be a good school if we
didn't have all those foreign students
around.“
100. I dislike having an instructor of a
race other than mine.
116. Minorities shouldn't feel
offended by the symbols (eg. flags or
songs) of school spirit even if those
symbols have been associated in the
past with racial segregation.
Examples from Duckitt’s scale
25. STEPS TO REDUCE IMPACT OF PREJUDICE
1. Breaking the cycle of Prejudice:
a. Calling parents attention to their own prejudiced
views
b. To teach prejudice harms not only those who are
victims, but those who holds such views as well
C. Enjoyment of everyday activities & life itself is
reduced by their own prejudice
2. Direct Intergroup contact
Increased contact between members of various
social groups can be effective in reducing prejudice,
but contact should take place under specific favourable
conditions.
26. 3. Recategorizations:
-Shifts in the boundary between an individuals ingroup
and various outgroups.
-Persons formerly viewed as outgroup members now to
be seen as belonging to the ingroup
4. Cognitive interventions (for stereotype)
-The impact of stereotype can be reduced if individuals
are encouraged to think carefully about others – to pay
attention to their unique characteristics rather than to
their membership in various groups.