SOCPSY 4B03 Lecture Notes - Lecture 6: Thomas Theorem, Ethnic Group, Shared Belief

• School: McMaster University
• Department: Social Psychology
• Course: SOCPSY 4B03
• Professor: Jeffrey Denis

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Week 6: social psychology of race & racism. Stereotyping: stereotypes: generalized beliefs about a group and its characteristics (fiske, 1990, old-fashioned: categorical, inflexible, modern: less categorical, more slippery. Prejudice: prejudice: attitudes (beliefs + emotions, old-fashioned: overt categorical hostility; antipathy based upon a faulty and inflexible generalization, modern: more subtle attitude of group superiority; most clearly expressed under perceived group threat. Quillian (2006: new approaches to understanding racial prejudice and discrimination , reviews and evaluates three loosely connected lines of research, new measures of discrimination (audit studies, theories of new prejudice or new racism, psychological research on implicit prejudice. Despised out-group; treated with contempt; most susceptible to exploitation. In-group and allies; admired and respected; one of us . Where does the sense of group position come from: history of indigenous-settler relations in the rainy river district, early contact: anishinaabeg were powerful, independent nation; alliance with the.