Prejudice review

How are prejudice and discrimination different from each other?

Prejudice is an attitude discrimination is an action.

All-weather liberal

(favorable attitude, favorable action)

Reluctant liberal

(favorable attitude, unfavorable action)

Timid Bigot

(unfavorable attitude, favorable action)

All-Weather bigot

(unfavorable attitude, unfavorable action)

scapegoating theory

prejudiced people believe they are society’s victims

authoritative personality theory

says that prejudiced people believe they are society’s victims.

Exploitation Theory

part of the Marxist tradition in sociology. According to this view, racial prejudice is often used to justify keeping a group in a subordinate position, such as a lower social class.

Normative Approach  

the view that prejudice is influenced by norms and situations that encourage or discourage the tolerance of minorities

 

What is the impact of stereotypes on how we interact with others?

unreliable generalizations about all members of a population that do not take individual differences into account.

 

Racial profiling is typically based on these

In what ways do colorblindness reproduce “structures of dominance”?

Use of race-neutral principles to defend the racially unequal status quo.