CHYS 1F90 Lecture Notes - Lecture 11: Barbara Rogoff, Eurocentrism, Parenting Styles
8 Dec 2015
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Stereotype threat - fear that one will confirm the stereotypes that others have regarding some salient group of which one is a member. Social learning: teach parents to socialize children to be tolerant (to be accepting of each other) Increase intergroup contact contact must involve cooperation and interdependence norms favoring group equality must exist focus on individual-based (vs. category) processing. Extended contact hypothesis knowing that members of in-group have formed friendships with out-group members may reduce prejudice. Focus on similarities between in-group and nonthreatening out-group. Re-categorization: reset boundaries between us and them , so former out-group is now included in the in-group. Focus on others" specific traits and outcomes (attribute-driven processing) rather than on group stereotypes (category-driven processing) Cris cullinan speaks about three presumptions that are associated with white privilege or what she likes to refer to as dominant cultural privilege.
