SOC 2280 Lecture Notes - Dreadlocks, Relative Deprivation, Poverty Threshold
28 Jan 2013
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Bogardus social distance scale: robert park and ernest burgess first defined social distance as the tendency to approach or withdraw from a racial group. Emory bogardus conceptualized a scale that could measure social distance empirically. This bogardus scale asks people how willing they would be to interact with various racial and ethnic groups in specified social situations. People are asked whether they would be willing to admit each group. To my club as personal chums (2. 00) As only visitors to my country (6. 00) The content of prejudice: stereotypes: stereotypes are unreliable generalizations about all members of a group that do not take individual differences into account. Evidence for traits may arise out of real conditions. Ricans live in poverty than whites, and so the prejudiced mind associates puerto ricans with laziness. Similarly, some activists in the women"s movement are lesbians, and so all feminists are seen as lesbians: numerous scientific studies have been made of these exaggerated images.
