Prejudice and Discrimination

Out-group

Those outside the group with which an individual identifies

Media stereotypes

Images used to depict groups of people in film, in print, and on television reinforce prejudicial social norms

When cotton prices rallied what happened to the number of lynchings

It fell

When cotton prices dropped what happened to the number of lynchings

It increased

Discrimination

A negative action taken against an individual as a result of his or her group membership

Prejudice

A negative attitude toward an individual based solely on his or her membership in a particular group

Prejudice is an _____, discrimination is a ______

Attitude, behavior

Scapegoating

Blaming an innocent person or a group for one's own troubles

The Hebrew priests of old performed a ritual that symbolically transferred the sins of the people to what?

Goat

Economic competition

One group wins economic benefits or jobs at the other group's expense

Combating prejudice with new role models

The ability of role models to change the minds of people who are already prejudiced, prevent it rather than cure

In-group

The group with which an individual identifies

Social distance

The perceived difference or similarity between oneself and another person

The number of lynchings in the southern United States between 1882 and 1930 was related to what?

The price of cotton

Combating prejudice with equal status contact

When people are placed together under conditions of equal status, where neither wields power over the other, the chances of developing understanding increase

Combating prejudice with legislation

When the law requires people to act in a less discriminatory fashion, people have to justify their new behavior by softening their prejudiced attitudes

When is scapegoating most effective?

When the object of scorn is readily identified by skin color or some distinctive physical features, or propaganda can create such differences in the minds of the dominant group