lecture 6 stereotypes and prejudice

what is prejudice

treating people unfairly based on arbitrary criteria i.e race and gender

often based on stereotypes, may lead to discrimination

what is discrimination

acting on one’s prejudice

what is systemic discrimination

when discrimination results in a societal system that treats a group unfairly

what is redlining

blocking off a certain group from access to resources such as education and housing

what is the shopping while black effect

associated with an ethnic minority group going shopping is more likely to be surveilled

what do studies suggest abt the shopping while black effect

black customers treated worse in white neighbourhoods than black neighbourhoods

black customers treated with more suspicion and following

chistopher alder case study

unlawful killing of soldier by police officers

david lammy review on policing

evidence of denial

people in privileged groups tend to deny the existence in bias, even in young people who are part of white majority groups

men are less likely to notice/respond to racism than women

evidence of gender discrimination

women are payed less than men for the same work, offered less informal support when joining organisations and are more likely to be offered low paying jobs, fewer leadership positions

how does SIT and SCT explain racism and prejudice

we self-categorise people into ingroup and outgroup, and we want our ingroup to do better than outgroups,

we benefit from promoting our ingroup since group identity is linked to sense of self

integrated threat theory

suggests the exsitence of a salient outgroup is percieved as either a physical threat i.e violence or a symbolic threat i.e loss of culture

these threats lead to intergroup anxiety and negative stereotyping, which leads to prejudice and discrimination

evidence of ITT

used to preidct prejudice towards moroccan immigrants in spain, and russian and ethiopian immigrants in israel

prejudice by dutch adolesecents towards muslims and found that symbolic not realistic threats predicted stereotyping

intergroup anxiety and realistic not symbolic threat rpedicted prejudice from hindu groups to muslims

how does modern prejudice work

pairing a negative stereotype with a positive stereotype can be used to justify prejudice i.e not giving women leadership positions by saying they are caring not tough

what is benevolent sexism

when men believe women looking after, can appear to be positive so is harder to resist