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    Prejudice and Racism Directions Please save this document before you begin working on the assignment. Type your answers directly in the document. Words appearing in maroon bold font are glossary words. Please refer to the course glossary list for the definitions. _________________________________________________________________________ Part 1 Racial Profiling: Answer the following questions. (Each question is worth three points) 1. Give three original examples of racial profiling. Type your

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    “Homelessness." Homelessness - Children‚ Define‚ Causes‚ Effects‚ Adults‚ Drug‚ Person‚ People. N.p.‚ n.d. Web. 19 Jan. 2017. A homeless person is any person who needs lodging‚ including someone whose main living place at night is a public place that provides temporary living conditions or a person who doesn’t have anywhere to stay. Poverty goes side by side with homelessness. Individuals with mental illness are at higher risk for becoming homeless because of difficulties connected with deinstitutionalization

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    racial stereotyping in cinema has largely been discussed by critics over the course of cinematic history. The negative portrayal of the Native American‚ for example‚ is rampant in the early Western film genre. Native Americans are‚ more often than not‚ portrayed as vicious savages‚ hell-bent on senselessly scalping and murdering as many ‘innocent’ (white?) American settlers as possible. Individuals of a darker skin colour‚ such as the African American‚ are also victims of negative stereotyping in early

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    The Social Identity Theory addresses phenomena such as prejudice‚ discrimination‚ intergroup conflict and stereotyping in terms of personality or interpersonal interactions. Tajfel and Turner (1979) suggested that the differentiation of two groups was enough for the emergence of prejudice. Stereotyping is seen as unfair generalisations about members of a group. It is viewed as problematic and resistent to change. Stereotypes are cognitive representations of how members of a group are similar to one

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    THE EFFECTS OF INDUSTRIALIZATION 1.- Population and Economic Growth One of the most important changes was the continuous expansion of the population and the economy. Most observers in the eighteenth century did not believe that expansion of the population and the economy could be sustained indefinitely. The population had consistently expanded as the greater agricultural productivity permitted maintaining an adequate food supply. The industrial economy had been able to employ large numbers

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    Prejudice cannot see the things that are because it is always looking for things that are not. This is emphasized as one of the main themes in Harper Lee’s novel‚ To Kill A Mockingbird. Set in the South during the 1930’s in a small town known as Maycomb County‚ the one of the most important morals‚ the one that all humans are created equal‚ is justified. Prejudice can be shown on a scale from most extreme down to least: genocide‚ expulsion‚ slavery‚ segregation‚ assimilation‚ and assimilation. The

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    action separately and the effects that arise from it. Act utilitarianism‚ the most common form used in many circumstances‚ looks at the consequences of each individual act and calculate utility each time the act is performed (Hinman‚ 24). Act utilitarianism works out the benefits before taking a morally right action. Rule utilitarianism looks at the consequences of everyone follow a particular rule and calculates the overall utility of accepting and rejecting

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    much freedom; there is no one to discipline them. In the past‚ when adolescents did poorly or behaved inappropriately in school‚ they were often punished in the form of physical abuse. Youths were disciplined back then but nowadays there are no consequences for their faults‚ so they abuse their rights on a regular basis. Additionally‚ youths are jealous of adults. Adults possess privileges which youths do not such as smoking‚ watching X-rated movies‚ and drinking. This factor forces youths to act

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    Luka Lokmer The film "Crash" directed by Paul Haggis challenges the audience through the theme of prejudice‚ isolation and through the use of characters how the audience views them. The film is set in Los Angeles‚ and shows the confrontation of people ’crashing’ into each other‚ due to their views and beliefs. Haggis shows this through cinematography‚ music‚ irony and through the use of characters. Haggis portrays the lives of every-day people who collide with each other because of their racial

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    around how we do this are known as attribution theory. As human beings we naturally try to sum people up and often due to this give ourselves the wrong picture of somebody. In this essay I am going to try to explain three of these sources of error‚ stereotyping‚ halo effect and attribution errors. Errors in social perception are a common occurrence‚ one of these errors is known as the halo effect. We all have a number of general assumptions about what personality traits go together. The likelihood is

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