Title: Goal 4: Stereotypes, images, prejudices
1Goal 4 Stereotypes, images, prejudices
Behaviors
2- Prejudice A negative attitude toward an entire
category of people, such as a racial or ethnic
minority.
3- Ethnocentrism The tendency to assume that ones
culture and way of life are superior to all
others. - Judgments are made about others and other
cultures following your own cultural standards,
when deciding the concepts of like/dislike
good/bad.
4- Ethnophaulism Ethnic or racial slurs (negative
statements) including derisive nicknames.
5Methods to reduce prejudice
- Education programs in school (K-8)
- Mass Media Television and Movies which
demonstrate harmony between diverse groups - Intergroup contact
- Contact hypothesis an interactionist view
stating that intergroup contact between people of
equal status in noncompetitive circumstances
will reduce prejudice.
6Methods to reduce prejudice
- Workplace Training Diversity training within
the work environment developed for that specific
environment.
7- Prejudice- an attitude
- Discrimination- an action (behavior)
8Attitudes of prejudice prevail for a lifetime,
however, they can and have changed since the
1950s. Most opinion polls (surveys) have
demonstrated increasing levels of acceptance of
different people and cultures by white people and
Hispanics.
9- There is still a greater level of dissatisfaction
with society as it is by black people as compared
to the other groups.
10Perceived discrimination and Social confrontation
- Intergroup hostility A national survey showed
that there is perceived prejudice between the
dominant group (white) and subordinate groups
(non-white). - It also showed perceived prejudices between
subordinate groups. See page 55 in text.
11Tokenism
- Any legislation, admissions policy, hiring
practice, etc., that demonstrates only minimal
compliance with the rules, laws, or public
pressure. - This has been used to deflect the government or
the public from complaining there is unfair or
unequal treatment occurring.
12DeJure v. DeFacto segregation
- DuJure legal, government sponsored laws or
rules which intentionally segregate against
subordinate groups of people. - Plessey v. Ferguson U.S. Supreme Court decision
1895. The court ruled that Separate but Equal
was legally acceptable. This led to parallel
societies of white and black in the U.S. from
1985 until 1965.
13- DeFacto Segregation that results from
residential patterns, or other facts of life
which by design are not intended to separate
people, but do cause it to happen. - This has led to the term Apartied Schools
14- Additionally, the practice in schools of tracking
is another form of DeFacto segregation. This is
the separation of students by skill level or test
scores. Students in the lower tracks are not
able to have access to the full curriculum. - In many large, diverse communities, this practice
has lead to different curriculums for the members
of the dominant group and the members of the
subordinate groups.
15Supreme Court Cases regarding Affirmative Action
Plans
- Business and Industry
- Fullilove v. Klutznick
- Metro Broadcasting v. Federal Communications
Commission - Adarand Constructors v. Pena
16Supreme Court cases regarding Affirmative Action
Plans
- Education
- University of California v. Bakke
- UCal Law School admissions
- Gratz v. Bollinger
- UMich undergraduate admissions
- Grutter v. Bollinger
- UMich Law School admissions
17- Hate Crimes Criminal offense committed because
of a provable bias (hate) of the perpetrator
toward the victim due to race, religion, ethnic
background, national origin or sexual orientation.
18- Hate groups Date back to the mid- late 19th
century with the beginning of the Ku Klux Klan.
Other hate groups have come into existence in the
U.S. during the last 130 years. They exist in
all but 5 states???