Group Conflict and prejudice

1. Group Conflict and prejudice Section 5

2. List the origins and functions of prejudice (3) • Explain and measures of prejudice • Analyze the ways to reduce prejudice (4)

3. Prejudice- negative stereotype and a strong, unreasonable dislike or hatred of a group • Central feature remains immune to evidence • Nature of Prejudice- Gordon Allport • Describes responses to direct evidence

4. chapter 10 Origins of prejudice Psychological functions People inflate own self-worth by disliking groups they see as inferior Social and cultural functions By disliking others we feel closer to others who are like us. Economic functions Legitimizes unequal economic treatment

5. The Origins and functions of Prejudice • Psychological functions • Ward off feelings of fear and doubt • Doubts or anxieties about sexuality may dislike gay people • Use target group as a scapegoat “ those people are the source of all my trouble” • Tonic for low self-esteem= negative collelation

6. 2. Social and cultural functions • Acquired through groupthink, social pressures, and conforming to friends, relatives and associates • Passed down parents mindlessly “ we don’t associate with people like that” • Unconscious (implicit) TV. ads, news, media • Prejudice flip side of ethnocentrism not we are better- they are bad

7. 3. Economic functions • Official forms seem legitimate justifying the majority groups dominance, status, or greater wealth • White men in power, justify excluding women, blacks and other minorities from work place and politics- inferior, irrational, and incompetent

8. Usually result of conflict, jobs, income • F.E. Chinese immigrants in America, 1900. competition for jobs • Ultimate competition is War • Prejudice is rampant, validity effect (over and over) • Called various names vermin, rats, mad dogs

9. Defining and measuring prejudice • Tough to measure, different ways to different extents • Hostile sexism- reflects active dislike of women • Benevolent sexism- superficially positive attitudes put women on pedestal but reinforces women’s subordination- wonderful, nice, patronizing= stay at home away from big bad world • Both legitimize gender discrimination

10. chapter 10 Measures of explicit prejudice

11. More measurable • Racism declining or in new forms? • Measure predjuce indirectly • More likely to be aggressive toward a target when insulted and stressed • Observing changes in the brain • Unconscious positive or negative associations

12. Reducing Conflict and Prejudice • Both sides must have equal legal status, economic opportunities, and power- civil rights movement, women's suffrage • Authorities and community institutions must provide moral, legal, and economic support for both sides- judges, teachers, employers, government, police

13. Both sides must have opportunities to work and socialize together, formally and informally- contact hypothesis, learn rules, foods, customs, music, attitudes learn those people not all alike • Both sides must cooperate, working together for a common goal- rattlers, eagles, also jigsaw method. At schools different groups work on assignments

14. chapter 10 Defining and measuring prejudice Measuring implicit prejudice Measures of symbolic racism Measures of behaviors rather than attitudes Measures of unconscious associations with a target group

15. chapter 10 Reducing prejudice Groups must have equal legal status, economic opportunities, and power. Authorities and institutions must endorse egalitarian norms and provide moral support for all groups. Groups must have opportunities to work and socialize together, both formally and informally. Groups must work together for common goal.

16. Summary • Origins • Measures • Reduced