Prejudice
A rigid attitude that is based on group membership and predisposes an individual to feel, thing, or act in a negative way toward another person
What is Prejudice?
The belief that one's own race is superior to another.
What is Individual Racism?
Consists of people who have similar social habits and values.
The institutional, cultural, and individual set of practices and beliefs that assign differential value to people according to their socioeconomic class
French people are very romantic and know how to express love and affection
What is a Positive Stereotype?
The blatant and aggressive denigration of the other group
What is Redneck prejudice?
To justify the dominance of people as white over other people defined as inferior (Native Americans, enslaved Africans, etc)
What is the purpose of race in America?
The norms, values, and ways of life shared by people with similar class positions
What is Class Culture?
How one's relative social class ranking enables one to have access to and negotiate political institutions in order to control others
What is Political Power?
I do not employ Americans in my company because they are "rude" and informal
What is Prejudice and Negative Stereotype?
Denies its own prejudicial roots but manifests a strong concern for the social status quo and concern about any who might threaten it
What is Symbolic Prejudice?
The pervasive and subtle use of power by dominant racial groups (Whites) to perpetuate their cultural heritage and impose it upon others while at the same time destroying the culture of ethnic minority
What is Cultural Racism?
Sets of culturally specific knowledge, skills, language, and self presentation that acts as markers of class, and enables persons to navigate social institutions
Cultural Capital
What are character traits on working-class citizens?
The new student is black and so will definitely need academic remediation
What is Racist and Prejudice
Explicitly denies prejudice but is the practice of engaging in positive behaviors toward outgroup that are trivial, while withholding more substantial and meaningful interactions or assistance
What is Tokenism Prejudice?
The process by which social, economic, and political forces determine the content and importance of racial categories and by which they are in turn shaped by racial meanings
What is Racial Formation?
The connections accursed from class. Family and neighborhood networks that poor and working-class people rely on for resources like child care, job leads, etc.
What is Social Capital?
Eating dinner as a family, experiment with different meals, "keeping your nose clean," going to a four-year-college is an expectation
What are characteristics of upper middle class?
Asians are "smart," studious, and extremely knowledgeable in math and sciences.
What is Positive Stereotype?
Those prejudice that are based on true feelings of the person concerning actual behaviors and practices by the outgroup
What is Real likes/dislikes prejudice?
Race denotes a group of people who perceive themselves and are perceived by others as possessing distinctive hereditary traits
What is Constructing Race?
Advantages and resources accorded to some groups of people and not others (often at the expense of others) based on relative class ranking
What is Class Privilege?
This theory considers the broad societal and school factors as well as the dynamics within the minority communities
What is Cultural-Ecological Theory?
("Ecology" is the setting, environment, or world of people, and "cultural broadly refers to the way people see their world and behave in it)
I will never employ women for this job because they are not "physically" strong to do the job.
What is Prejudice, Negative Stereotype, and Institutional Discrimination