SOC 134 Lecture Notes - Lecture 3: Miscegenation, Multiracial, English Nationalism
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Stereotype: in unreliable generalization about all members of a group. All black people are good at dancing etc. Prejudice: a negative attitude about a person or persons based on their (perceives) groups members. Negative attitude that is actually applied to a person or group of people in a real world situation. Ex: an arab american is an terrorist on your plane. Discrimination: actions (or patterns of actions) that have a differential and negative impact on members of a subordinate group, often motivated by stereotype or prejudice. Ex: pattern of profiling of arab american or appear to be muslim extended. It is an action or a pattern of action searches at airports . Ex: police search african americans for drugs at routine traffic searches at a higher rate than white people. Domination: political, social, and economic power; as well as the symbolic power to classify one groups as normal" and other groups as abnormal .
