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    Types of Prejudice PSY322 Intergroup Relations Jonathan Cadieux Outline • • • • • Model of Prejudice Sexism Overweight Sexual Orientation Ageism Fiske Prejudice Model  4 Types of Groups  Based on Competence and Warmth  Competence: perceived group status  Warmth: perceived competition  Group 1: Incompetent but warm  Low status‚ not competitive  Results in Paternalistic Prejudice  Group 2: Incompetent and not warm – Low status‚ competitive – Results in

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    on reason. Prejudice Pride and prejudice are intimately related in the novel. As critic A. Walton Litz comments‚ "in Pride and Prejudice one cannot equate Darcy with Pride‚ or Elizabeth with Prejudice; Darcy’s pride of place is founded on social prejudice‚ while Elizabeth’s initial prejudice against him is rooted in pride of her own quick perceptions." Darcy‚ having been brought up in such a way that he began to scorn all those outside his own social circle‚ must overcome his prejudice in order to

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    Prejudice Prejudice‚ a negative opinion formed without experience or knowledge‚ is a state of mind as old as humanity itself. Prejudice has been the cause of wars‚ hatred‚ and intolerance throughout history. Countless innocent lives have been lost or destroyed all because of prejudices based on things as simple as skin color. In Harper E. Lee’s novel‚ To Kill a Mockingbird‚ prejudice is shown to lead to injustice and inequity. The manner in which people behave and the events that take place in To

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    Dissociation Model of Prejudice suggests that processing information about others occurs in two-step: the first step triggers the stereotypes automatically‚ and the second step is that people have the control whether to accept the stereotype or not. By this theory‚ people cannot control the acceptances of the stereotype if they are distracted or not paying attention. Dissociation Model gives a cognitive explanation of the source of being prejudice. Back to my example‚ when people saw

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    base their judgements on what they see and not the truth. Their blindness leads to the countless consequences in the novel‚ but prejudice is often the center of their conflicts. Their ignorance of the entire truth results in prejudice acts that severely affect the lives of Atticus Finch‚ Tom Robinson‚ and Arthur Radley. Firstly‚ a character affected by social prejudice is Atticus Finch. The Finches stands high in the Maycomb society‚ shown when Atticus says to Jem‚ “You are the product of several

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    Group Identifiers‚ Stereotypes and Prejudices More often than not‚ when someone stereotypes someone it is more negative than positive. A negative generalization to a racial group can however be thought of as positive through association. For Example‚ I’m not good at tennis and I’m terrible softball but some people think that all white people are good at both. I‚ by default‚ am thought to be normally good at softball and tennis simply by association. Stereotyping is usually not accurate and used

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    Mr. Bennet: he lives in Longbourn‚ a village‚ with his five daughters. His favourite is Elizabeth. He considers his other daughters as silly and empty-headed and Lizzy‚ as he called Elizabeth‚ the cleverest. He has an odd character Mrs. Bennet: in her youth she was a beautiful woman but now that she has grow-up daughters she stops thinking in her own beauty and thinks of her daughter’s future. She has been married for almost twenty-three years but she never could understand her husband odd’s character

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    What can we actually do to produce better conversations about race? People need to learn the definition about what is racism and what is race. Also assuming who people are just because of their skin color or where they’re from shouldn’t be done. Another thing would be schools teaching kids more about this subject and giving them knowledge. Parents setting good examples talking to their children at a young age. Its very important for society to actually know what the difference between race and racism

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    A sign stands for something to the idea which it produces‚ or modi-fies... The meaning of a representation can be nothing but a representation.... Finally‚ the interpretant is nothing but another representation to which the torch of truth is handed along; and as rep-resentation‚ it has its interpretant again. Lo‚ another infinite series. A sentence with “... urban birds in cities such as pigeons ...” matches the pattern “C such as E” with C bound to city and E bound to pigeon‚ leading to city as

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    “Everybody wants to know: Is Hollywood racist? Is it burning-cross racist? No‚ it’s a different kind of racist. You’re damn right Hollywood’s racist‚ but not the racist we’ve grown accustomed to. Hollywood is sorority racist. It’s like ‘We like you Rhonda‚ but you’re not a kappa’. That’s how Hollywood is.” This quote‚ made by the comical and gifted Chris Rock‚ talks about the lack of diversity in Hollywood that has been existing for decades. Even though this quote refers to race‚ it still applies

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