Lesson 2
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- prejudice - the negative feeling or attitude towards a person or a group even if it lacks basis
- The word prejudice comes from Latin roots prae (in advance) and judicum (judgment) which means judge before
- Stereotype - refers to the negative opinion about a person or a group based on incomplete knowledge
- discrimination - refers to the negative actions toward members of a specific social group that may be manifested in avoidance, aversion, or even violence
- Prejudice includes 3 components of attitude:
- cognitive
- affective
- behavioral
- Types of prejudice:
- racism
- sexism
- heterosexism
- classism
- looksism
- ageism
- linguicism
- religious intolerance
- racism - the belief that one's own cultural or racial heritage is innately superior to that of others, hence, the lack of respect or appreciation for those who belong to a "different race"
- sexism - a system of attitudes, actions, and actions that subordinates others on the basis of their sex where the usual victims are women.
- heterosexism - negative attitudes towards lesbian and gay men
- classism - distancing from and perceiving the poor as "the other"
- looksism - prejudice against those who do not measure up to set standards of beauty
- ageism - negative attitudes held against the young or the elderly
- linguicism - negative attitudes which members of dominant language groups hold against non-dominant language group.
- religious intolerance - prejudice against those who are followers of religions other that one's own
- 2 categories of stereotype:
- individual stereotypes
- group stereotypes
- individual stereotype - are attitudes toward individual people. Examples are attributions based on people's name, physical appearance
- group stereotypes - attitudes based on whether the person is a member of an in/out group
- Attitudes are said to have 3 components:
- cognitive component
- affective component
- behavioral component
- cognitive component - comprises a set of beliefs about the group or individual
- affective component - is a feelings towards the group or individual
- behavioral component - set of behaviors or actions directed towards the group or individual based on the other two components.
- A stereotype is an example of implicit personality theory. Such theory attribute internal properties to a person, such as character traits, on the basis of external properties.
- prejudiced may be challenged by teaching tolerance
- tolerance - is the respect, acceptance, and appreciation of the rich diversity of cultures and various forms of human expression (UNESCO)
- UNESCO asserts that education is the most effective means of preventing intolerance.
- Article 1.2 of the Declaration of Race and Racial Prejudice stipulates that all individuals and groups have the right to be different
- Stereotype - is an attitude towards a person or group on the basis of some physical characteristic or physical fact.