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Racism
the systemic subordination of members of targeted racial groups who have relatively little social power...by members of the agent racial group who have relatively more social power
Prejudice
is a negative feeling, antipathy, either expressed or not expressed based on faulty or inflexible generalizations which places a group of people at some disadvantage not merited by their actions.
Discrimination
Actions taken on the bases of one's prejudice
3 Types of Racism
individual, institutional, cultural
Individual racism
Beliefs, attitudes, and actions of individuals that support or perpetuate racism. (ethnocentrism)
Institutional racism
involves the manipulation of societal institutions to give preference and advantages to dominant group and at the same time restrict the choices, rights, mobility, and access of the minority group.
Cultural racism
The belief that the cultural ways of one group is superior to anothers
Groups tends to create conformity through:
Size, frequency of contact, cohesiveness, (attraction) group significance (importance), and clarity of group norms.
Avoidant types
Ignore, minimize, or deny race
Dependent types
Adopt positions of significant others
Dissonate types
Lack of commitment and change positions easily
Dominative types
Adopts classic bigotry
Conflictive types
Opposes efforts at social justice
Integrative types
Open to change through goodwill and rationality
Reactive types
Stand militantly against racism
What is culture?
How people do things
What is a paradigm?
The mindset that comes out of a culture. A set of assumptions, beliefs, or ideas that shape how someone views the world
Monochronic
Time urges people to do things one at a time. Has a high need for closure, linear fashion, wants people to stand in line
Polychromic
Many things at once, does a number of things simultaneously, will skip and ignore lines, and information overload
Individualistic
Concerned with personal achievement, values truth and talking straight, more I than we, more independent
Collectivism
concerned with community, serving face, groupness and harmony. Concerned with others feelings and not embarrassing situations. Interdependent.
Achievement orientation
Exhibits work as most central to their lives. Values material success. Diffenterates gender roles, displays high levels of stress
Nurturance orientation
Tends to accept fluid gender roles, and values interpersonal relationships. Reads nonverbal messages better. Values compassion, less stress
High power distance
How power and authority is perceived. Characterized by a large gap in power and authority, where individuals accept and expect that some people have more power than others.
Low power distance
Tends to be horizontal, less ritualistic. People value equality, minimize social hierarchies, and encourage participation
High context
Tends to live with ambiguity, Uses a soft bargaining approach, involves feeling and intuition.
Low context
Tend to dislike things they don't understand, Usually use a direct form of communication. Tend to look for the individual differences
