According to the famous Harvard psychologist‚ Gordon Allport‚ “Prejudice is an antipathy based on faulty and inflexible generalization. It may be felt or expressed. It may be directed toward a group of people or an individual of that group” (http://www.dictionary.com). Today‚ most people use the word prejudice to refer to a negative or intimidating attitude toward another social group‚ usually racially defined. Whether we want to believe it or not‚ prejudice exists in all countries and all cultures
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power og gender beliefs. Gender beliefs lead children to hold very fixed gender attitudes because they ignore any information they encounter that is not consistent with ingroup information. For example‚ if a boy sees a film with a male nurse‚ this information is ignored because the man is not behaving consistenly with the boys’ ingroup schema. Therefore‚ the boy does not alter his existing schema. In this way gender schema have a profound effect on what is reme‚mbered. There is research support
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1. Explain groupishness and how it contributes to (a) oppression and to (b) either wrongful discrimination or the current American ideological divide. Be sure to cite some historical examples. •Explain groupishness: A group is a mental concept‚ in which a person feels that he/she belongs to‚ or does not belong to. It is the nature of groupishness‚ that members of a group are aware of their membership of the group‚ and are aware of the existence of other members of the group as such (not necessarily
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other; they tend to value attending to others‚ fitting in‚ and harmonious interdependence with them. Thus the self in collectivistic cultures is interdependent‚ and the individual is focused predominantly on his or her relationship with ingroup members or with the ingroup as a whole. In collectivistic cultures‚ emotions are experienced out of relationships. They reflect the outer‚ rather than the inner world and are therefore taken as objective: it is assumed that all people experience the same emotion
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Through Implicit Association Tests‚ one is able to see their natural bias’s (or lack thereof) through reaction times to grouping things as “good” or “bad”. One can use the results of the test to better understand an outgroup and to change how they interact with the member of the outgroup. For this project‚ I took the sexuality IAT. Through this IAT‚ I learned that I do indeed have a bias‚ and because of this‚ I can alter how I interact with others. The purpose of this IAT was to measure the presence
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Social Psychology: Bringing It All Together PSY 301 Sarah Koerner-Jordan October 22‚ 2012 Franchelle Guy Social Psychology: Bringing It All Together Social psychology is the scientific study of human thoughts‚ feelings‚ and behavior as they relate to and are influenced by others (Feenstra‚ 2011). It is a broad field that covers a variety of topics. Social psychologists study a variety of topics‚ including views of the self‚ persuasion‚ attraction‚ and group processes. Researchers
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of values Shye‚ S. (1985). Nonmetric multivariate models for behavioral action systems. In D. Canter (Ed.)‚ The facet approach to social research (pp Struch‚ N.‚ & Schwartz‚ S. H. (1989). Intergroup aggression: Its predictors and distinctness from ingroup bias. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology‚ 56‚ 364-373. Triandis‚ H. C. (1990). Cross-cultural studies of individualism and collectivism. In J. Berman (Ed.)‚
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Business Ethics – Term Paper March 21/13 Discrimination Introduction Discrimination is defined as distinguishing something from something else (i.e. don’t hire him because he has no experience). Unjustified discrimination is distinguishing something from something else on a basis that is not justified (i.e. don’t hire him because he is black). The term discrimination commonly replaces the term unjustified discrimination in business‚ philosophy‚ psychology and day-to-day community life. In a just
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Evolution: descent with modification; the idea that living species are descendants of ancestral species that were different from the present-day ones. Biology: the scientific study of life. Emergent properties: new properties that emerge with each step upward in the hierarchy of life‚ owing to the arrangement and interaction of parts as complexity increases. Systems biology: an approach to studying biology that aims to model the dynamic behavior of whole biological systems based on a study of the
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Chapter 1. The Sociological Perspective & Research Process Chapter Outline Contemporary Theoretical Perspectives The Sociological Research Process Research Methods Ethical Issues in Sociological Research Why Study Sociology? (p. 4) Helps us gain a better understanding of ourselves and our social world. Helps us see how behavior is shaped by the groups to which we belong and our society. Promotes understanding and tolerance by helping us look beyond personal experiences and gain insight
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