SOC 0829 Study Guide - Final Guide: Peggy Mcintosh, Involuntary Servitude, Aggressive Driving
Amendment's to the Constitution: I, IV, VI, VIII, XIII, and XV (she has this on BB)
1: Freedom of speech/press, right to assembly & petition the government
2: Right to bear arms
4: Makes unreasonable search & seizure illegal - need warrant for probable cause
5: Protects a person from having to be a witness against himself in a criminal case “I Plead the
Fifth”
6: Right to a speedy and public trial by a jury
8: Prohibits government from imposing excessive bail, excessive fines or cruel and unusual
punishments
13. Neither slavery nor involuntary servitude, except as a punishment for crime whereof the
party shall have been duly convicted, shall exist within the United States, or any place subject to
their jurisdiction. Congress shall have power to enforce this article by appropriate legislation.
15. The right of citizens of the United States to vote shall not be denied or abridged by the
United State or by any State on account of race, color, or previous condition of servitude.
Congress shall have power to enforce this article by appropriate legislation.
Stuff from BB
Dear White America -
Arguments and key examples (check at the end)
Notes from the board and lectures - Stuff on board
Handouts articles:
Thomas Jefferson
Peggy McIntosh (TED TALK) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e-BY9UEewHw)
United Nations - General content and arguments or findings
Movie: Crash - Messaging (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8rQE_y0V-ss
Chapter 4
● Cognitive level of prejudice: encompasses a person’s beliefs and perceptions of a group as
threatening or nonthreatening, inferior or equal (e.g., in terms of intellect, status, or biological
composition), seclusive or intrusive, impulse-gratifying, acquisitive, or possessing other positive
or negative characteristics in an individual
○ Example: Cognitive belief - Irish are hard drinkers
● Emotional level of prejudice: encompasses the feelings that a minority group arouses in an
individual, these feelings represent a more intense stage of personal involvement
○ Example:whites might react angrily towards blacks integrating into the school system
● Action-orientation level of prejudice: the positive or negative predisposition to engage in
discriminatory behavior. A person who harbors strong feelings about members of a certain racial
or ethnic group may have a tendency to act for or against that group - being aggressive or
nonaggressive, offering assistance or withholding it.
○ Example: some people would want to exclude members of the disliked group from doing
business with them or living in the same neighborhood
● Self-justification: involves denigrating a person or group to justify maltreatment of that person
or group. Self-justification leads to prejudice and discrimination against members of another
group
○ Example: “they asked for it”/ if we can convince ourselves that a group is inferior then we
may feel justified to mistreating, discriminating, enslaving or even killing members/ establishing
a hierarchy
● Displaced aggression: directing hostility against a powerless group to compensate for
feelings of insecurity and fear
○ Example: Aggressive driving or road rage
● Scapegoating: blaming others for something that is not their fault
○ Example: between 1882 and 1930 the cotton prices declined and the number of black
lynchings increased
● Selective perception: absorb information that accords with their own beliefs and rationalize
away information that does not
○ Example:
● Stereotype: an oversimplified generalization by which we attribute certain traits or
characteristics to a group without regard to individual differences
○ Example: Asians excel in math
Chapter 5
● Ethnoviolence: violent attacks on members of the disliked group, encompassses a range of
actions - verbal harassment and threats, vandalism, graffiti, swastika painting, arson, cross
burning, physical assault, and murder - committed against people targeted solely because of
their race, religion, ethnic background, or sexual orientation
○ Example: cross burning, vandalism
● Social discrimination: the creation of the “social distance” between groups. In close, primary
relationships, people tend to associate with others of similar ethnic background and
socioeconomic level; thus, dominant-group members usually exclude minority-group members
from close relations with them.
○ Example:
● Institutional discrimination: the unequal treatment of subordinate groups inherent in the
ongoing operations of society’s institutions.
○ Example: banks rejecting a disproportionate number of minority home mortgage applicants.
● Affirmative action: the government’s efforts to curb discrimination in employment (President
Kennedy’s Executive Order 10925 in 1961 was first to use the term affirmative action).
Document Summary
Amendment"s to the constitution: i, iv, vi, viii, xiii, and xv (she has this on bb) 1 : freedom of speech/press, right to assembly & petition the government. 4: makes unreasonable search & seizure illegal - need warrant for probable cause. 5: protects a person from having to be a witness against himself in a criminal case i plead the. 6: right to a speedy and public trial by a jury. Congress shall have power to enforce this article by appropriate legislation: the right of citizens of the united states to vote shall not be denied or abridged by the. United state or by any state on account of race, color, or previous condition of servitude. Congress shall have power to enforce this article by appropriate legislation. Dear white america - arguments and key examples (check at the end) Notes from the board and lectures - stuff on board. United nations - general content and arguments or findings.
