SCPE Unit 2

Redneck

the blatant and aggressive denigration of the other group

Symbolic

Denies it’s own prejudicial roots but manifests a strong concern for the social status quo and concern about any who might threaten it

Tokenism

Explicitly denies prejudice but is the practice of engaging in positive behaviors toward outgroup that are trivial, while withholding more substantial and meaningful interaction

Arms Length

Interacting with the out group in some types of social settings but not others

Real likes/dislikes

Those prejudice that are based on true feelings of the person concerning actual behaviors practices by the outgroup

Familiar/unfamiliar

Prejudice involves a discomfort grounded in ignorance about the other group

Triandis

Natural tendency to simplify our problems and to solve them as easy as possible

Stereotype

A mental category based on exaggerated and inaccurate generalizations used to describe all members of a group

Discrimination

Overt expression of prejudice that does harm to members of the group

Moral Prejudice

The so called prejudiced person has deviated from the accepted moral standard in terms of fairness

Cognitive Prejudice

Based on the logically flawed view of reality and overgeneralizing, and oversimplifying the attributes of a group of people

Prejudice

A rigid attitude based on group membership and predisposes an individual to feel, think, or act in a negative way toward another

Interest Convergence

System of white-over-color ascendency serves important purposes for the dominant group

One Drop Rule

Any person with blood quantum of a certain percentage

What was the goal of the “One Drop” rule and the “Quantum Blood” rule

To perpetuate a system of advantage benefitting white wealth

Adam Smith

• Market-based thinking

• Self-interest

• Invisible hand

• Justice is retributive

• John Locke

• Preservation of Property

• Institutionalized inequality

• New Creed

• Currency does not spoil

Thomas Hobbes

• Self-Preservation

• Reason rather than religion

• Fear as a weapon to control

• Imagined necessity of racial hierarchy for social order

• Social Class

• A relative social ranking based on income, wealth, education, status, and power

• A measure of the resources a person has and the status attached to those resources by society as a whole

Class Privilege

Advantages and resources accorded to some groups and not others based on relative class ranking

Classism

The institutional, cultural, and individual set of practices and beliefs that assign differential value to people according to their socioeconomic class

Jean Anyon’s Conceptual Framework of Class

A person’s social class is defined by the way that person relates to the process in society by which goods, services, and cultures are produced

• Ownership relations

• Relationship between people

• Relations between people and their work

Class Culture

The norms, values, and ways of life shared by people with similar class positions

Develop in response to economic realities

Cultural Capital

Sets of culturally specific knowledge, skills, language, and self presentation that acts as markers of class, and enables persons to navigate social institutions

Social Capital

The connections accrued from class (family and neighborhood networks that they rely on)

Political Power

How one’s relative social class ranking enables one to have access to and negotiate political institutions in order to control