SOCI 341 Lecture Notes - Lecture 5: Authoritarianism
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***these two things usually go hand in hand. 3 theories as to the origins of discrimination: personality (cognitive) Look for someone to blame for problems usually a minority. Feel up by putting someone else down. When you focus on personality or behavior, you are only focusing on an individual and not social factors: culture (learned, social con ict. Label a giver group of people according to certain categories. Others seem positive, but are still offensive and problematic. Poor hispanic women might be more stereotypes than wealthy hispanic men. Different groups are pitted against each other at the encouragement of the capitalist economy. The elite condone stereotyping because it puts minorities competing against each other instead of against them. Members of working class create and condone stereotyping against one another in the interest of self serving. Children absorb things just by watching and listening. Hard to study what is mostly behind closed doors.
