ALES204 Lecture Notes - Lecture 4: Social Inequality

• School: University of Alberta
• Department: Agricultural, Life and Environmental Sciences
• Course: ALES204
• Professor: Nancy Bray

Document Summary

Canada is between linear-active and reactive ! porugal and italy are close to multi active ! Hall - dimensions of culture ! high-context vs. low-context ! Asian, latin american cultures vs. canada, uk, germany, new zealand, us! high context - one that relies on a lot of interpersonal cues to convey information ! Culture and communication ! culture determines how we see the world ! issue of the familiar ! Stereotypes vs. prejudice ! stereotypes/ schemas = mental images or pictures on our heads ! prejudice = how we feel about a group of people who we don"t know personally ! Racism and perceptual biases ! schemas = models of how the world works ! Schemas de ne white people or radicalized person ! white person = schema is often positive ! sets up cumulative advantages (despite our best intentions) !