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Chapter 2
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Sociology
Undergraduate 2
09/22/2008

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Term
discrimination
Definition
reaction, withholding something
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prejudice
Definition
the feelings you have.  hate crimes are PREJUDICE bc youre not wthholding anything
Term
experiment milgrim
Definition

teacher/student in different room

say word, answer correctly, but if answered wrong then got shocked.

questioned when notch went up but authority said to keep going so they did

 

most ppl killed complete stranger bc AUTHORITY said  to do it

Term
hate crime
Definition

hate crimes statistiics act becamse law in 1990

 

offenders choose a victime bc of some characteristic and provide evidence that hatred prompted them to commit the crime

 

51% is because of race

 

most active in southest

Term
kkk
Definition
white supremacy, anti-semitism, anti-catholicism, racism, homophobia, nti-communism and nativism
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christian identity
Definition

non-caucasions have no spirit, therefore members of other races can never earn God's favor or be saved

Term
neo nazism
Definition
post WWII political movements seeking to revive teh ideology of national socialism--racial and ethnic nationalism
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racist skinheads
Definition
far right subculture that is racis, anti-semitic, anti-islamic, white supremacist, anti-gay, and often neo-nazi. 
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black separtism
Definition
seeks separate homeland for blacks
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ethnopaulism
Definition
ethnic slurs that include derisive nicknames and include speaking about or to memebers of a particular group in a condescending way
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lapieres study
Definition

mertons typology points out that ppl do not always act as they believe

 richard lapiere--exposed relationship between racial attitude adn social conduct

traveled with chinese couple across US

despite lleged intolerence, couple was treated courteously

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theories of prejudice
Definition

scapegoating

athoritarian personality

exploitation

normative

Term
scapegoating
Definition
assigning blame to another
Term
authorian
Definition

1.  power and toughenss

2.  uncritical acceptance of authoirty

3. intolerence and aggression towards ppl that dont conform to conventional values

 

Term

authorian

 

CRITICISMS

Definition

1.  focus on right wing groups and ignored left

2.  prejudice is related to others such as social class

 

Term
exploitation
Definition

prejudice is rationally and economicaly motivated on basis of self interest

2.  dominant group benefits from prejudice

 

Term

exploitation

 

CRITICISMS

Definition

not all minority groups are exploited equally

2.  prejudice occurs for reasons other than economic

3.  prejudice isnt necessarily rational and may undermine dominant group interests

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normative
Definition

prejudice is patterned into the cultural norms adn values of a group or society

2.  prejudice is a function of conforming to group

Term

normative

 

CRITICISMS

Definition

implying that everyons i prejudice, so there is no way out of t

2.  we are all prejuice at the same level or rate---not true

Term
where do stereotypes come from
Definition

varierty of sources

 

media

kernal of truth

but power plays a role in their effect

Term
trends in stereotyping
Definition

1.  stereotypes often become a self-fulfilling prophecy

2.  stereotypin in action: racial profiling

Term
social distance
Definition
tendency to approach or withdraw from a racial group
Term
emory bogardus scale
Definition
used to measure social distance empirically and describes difference degrees of social contact or social distance
Term
mood of the oppressed
Definition

we have been studying the majority opinion longer than we ahve been studying teh minority opinion

2.  this leads to bias of white researchers

3.  dominant group is more important to study bc its in a better position act on its beliefs

Term
intergroup hostility
Definition

content and extent of prejudice adn stereotypes between ethnic-racial groups

2.  memeber of oppressed groups have adopted teh widely held beliefs of the dominant culture concerned oppressing groups

3.  some groups feel they get along better with whites than with other minority groups

4.  low income groups compete with one another so they don't see the dominant group as a competitor

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