POLI 474 Lecture Notes - Lecture 17: Hypertension, Allostatic Load, System On A Chip
9 Apr 2017
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How to minimize prejudice v. indigenous peoples: contact theory: Stereotypes and prejudice can be lessened over time through contact b/w in/out group members. Conditions of contact: status equality, common goals, cooperation, support from authorities, laws, or customs, potential of contact to change intergroup relations greatest when political climate allows for shift in relative power of subordinate group. Can contact change white canadians" prejudices + stereotypes. Interviews w/ 160 fn, m tis, and white residents of a sm. settler town in nw on. Widespread intermarriage and friendship b/w aborig. and white residents. But contact x diminish prejudice and discrimination. White"s superior sense of gr. position remain intact. Poverty: tied to other soc. conditions: over-crowded housing, poor living conditions, substandard schools. 21 - 03 - 2017: also linked to suicide. Barriers to education: some improvements in educational attainment, especially hs and post-secondary, educational attainment improves economic position, but! + gains in post-secondary educational attainment < university degree / ba.
