There is no doubt that prejudice in society towards African Americans has decreased in the last 100 years by eliminating segregation and the positive affects that the civil rights movements caused. Despite those positive changes, prejudice still exists. (Feenstra, 2013, p. 98) Prejudice can be explained as, “a negative attitude toward individuals based on their membership in a particular group.” (Feenstra, 2013, p. 92) I hypothesize that prejudice towards African American men is significantly higher than prejudice towards white American men in the United States. If a person is to walk by a group of African Americans, they will feel much more anxious than they would if they were to walk by a group of white Americans. I believe there would be a same pattern in that more negative stereotypes would be applied to Africans Americans than to white men. But for this experiment, prejudice will be my main focus. Prejudice and stereotyping go hand in hand, so it is important to understand the differences between the two. While prejudice engages a negative attitude about a group, “stereotypes are beliefs about the characteristics of particular groups or members of those groups.” (Feenstra, 2013, p. 92) In other words, stereotypes focus more on behaviors towards groups, while prejudice focuses more on negative attitudes on the group as a whole. It is important to conduct experiments on prejudice, so that social psychologists can narrow down the root causes of prejudice, and hopefully present ways in which we can decrease prejudice. The following essay will describe how I would conduct an experiment to measure prejudice against African American males versus white American males.
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...imental group that included the white males. Then I would be able to compare the results and see if my experiment supported my hypothesis. If my hypothesis was supported, I would want to further investigate what groups of people were the most anxious around my groups of the five men. This further investigation could help in pinpointing where a lot of prejudice comes from.
In conclusion, if I were able to conduct an experiment on prejudice in our society, I would conduct a field study that focused heavily on descriptive methods: natural observation and surveys. (Lecture 1/23/14) I believe there are many other different ways that my style of experiment could be of beneficial use. Instead of using males, you could use females, or you could use different races. Prejudice in our society is a very important thing that should be further studied by social psychologists.
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- Explains that prejudice in society towards african americans has decreased in the last 100 years by eliminating segregation and the positive affects that the civil rights movements caused.
- Explains how they would bring in their dependent variables to their experimental group to try to decrease stereotypical thinking. they would then conduct natural observations and surveys with their control group.
- Explains that they would conduct their field study at a large and popular park that frequently has visitors. they would observe people walking around the park and write down their body language and behaviors.
- Explains that when people take surveys, a disadvantage is that they may not be truthful.
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- Analyzes how the pure coon emerged as a no account nigger, blatantly degrading of all black stereotypes.
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- Explains how the k-w-l strategy can help students understand what they learn when working nonfiction materials.
- Explains that assessment i will assess student comprehension of objective by their completed k-w-l dittos at the end of the unit.
- Explains that blackboard, chalk, photos, writing paper, pencils, pens, long computer printout giving dictionary definition of stereotype.
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- Explains that the letters k-w-l represent the words know, what (to know) and learned. they model how to use chart on the board by filling in first column with student responses.
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- Explains that stereotypes in school have been found to affect students and their education. they read shankar vedantam's article "how self-fulfilling stereotypes affect people."
- Describes the process of collecting the data from mrs roberts. they then interviewed two people in class and submitted their data into a spreadsheet.
- Explains that their class has done research into stereotypes at their school. they interviewed one hundred and sixty five students. only forty eight percent of the participants were female while fifty two percent were male.
- Explains that the data collected by the ninth grade showed many trends throughout both gender and different ethnic groups. hispanics were stereotyped as being illegal, bad academically and associated with gardening and soccer.
- Explains that stereotypes affect people at their school, but different groups are affected more than others. one of the people interviewed classified himself in the ethnic group of whites.
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- Explains that social psychology is a scientific form of explaining human behaviour. it was developed by gordon allport in 1985.
- Explains that prejudice is a negative attitude towards an individual or group of individuals due to social control.
- Explains that social psychology picks up on how people are affected by other people. prejudice is a powerful, negative effect that causes individuals to feel many emotions.
- Explains that racism, agism, homophobia ect. affect individuals fairly similar as they create the two main emotions- anger and feeling upset.
- Explains that we can avoid and conform to certain behaviour because that behaviour is already determined through socialisation. racism can happen in many ways but will still have the same outcome.
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- Analyzes how jane elliott failed to protect her class of children from harm by labelling them as 'less intelligent', which could have affected them psychologically. social control is important in explaining human behaviour.
- Analyzes how the blue-eyed children became prejudiced towards the brown eyed people because they were given the role of better, which brought on power and control. once people believe in something to be true, they act upon it.
- Analyzes how elliott's study showed that children presented prejudice instantly in seconds of given the role. they were depressed, did worse in activities, and showed signs of unhappiness.
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- Cites hogg, m.a., & vaughan, g.m. (2011). social psychology.
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- Explains that psychology is the only discipline that has consistently and systematically investigated the issue of prejudice and race.
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- Explains that personality theories locate race and prejudice within the intro-psychic domain of the individual; authoritarian-rearing practices, intolerance and intro psychic defence mechanisms are isolated as casual agents to a significant problem.
- Argues that personal approaches have been challenged by the dominance of social cognitive perspectives, which view prejudice as inevitable consequences of normal and functional cognitive processes.
- Explains that prejudice emerged as a construct of significant interest to psychologists in the 1920s, and that there have been several distinct stages of theoretical and empirical development, such as white superiority and minority backwardness.
- Explains that freud spawned many psychodynamic theories of human personality, including adorno et al and non-pyschodynamic derivatives of authoritarianism.
- Argues that the most dominant theoretical and empirical approach to prejudice is social cognition. social cognitive research suggests that outgroups discrimination and prejudice stem from basic and functional cognitive processes such as categorisation.
- Explains that while cognitive models of prejudice are currently dominant, researchers are emphasising the role that affects plays in prejudice.
- Explains that the development of prejudice in young children is where much of the social cognitive developmental literature has been found that children demonstrate clear ethnic and racial preferences at around 3 or 4 years old.
- Recommends involving children in lots of role-play i.e. for them to act out at being ogres, elves, and to come to the defence of short people like gnomes and halflings.
- Opines that children are born without prejudice. prejudice is caught and taught that is why the parent's attitude is the heart of the matter. children are always listening, providing experiences for the children to look, speak or worship differently, so they can learn from it.
- Analyzes how the elaboration likelihood model emphasizes the role of attention demands in attitude change and argues that more effortful processing is necessary for long-term attitude changes.
- Explains that prejudice based on social identity theory and self-categorisation theory is a central feature in the perspective of the discontinuity hypothesis.
- Explains that prejudice is an attitude towards a particular set of people, objects or events. allport (1958) has said that attitudes have three components: cognitive, affective, and cognitive.
- Explains that devine's model of prejudice shows that the primary difference between prejudiced and unprejudiced people rests in the way in which they inhibit or disregard negative stereotypical beliefs.
- Explains that allport identified six approaches or emphases to the theories of prejudice, including the historical or economic approach, sociocultural, situational, personality dynamics and structure, phenomenological approach and stimulus object.
- Explains how john duckitt of the university of auckland has integrated this knowledge into a multi-level approach to the reduction of prejudice.
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- Analyzes how geoffrey cohen's writing exercise was effective at reducing the effects of stereotype threat, and can be furthered by working to alleviate many of the prejudices that plague our world today.
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- Explains that experimenters were curious as to how gender differences related to cheating and evaluated how competition and virtue played an affect on how little or how much one might cheat.
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- Explains that 57% of participants cheated on one or more of the 5 questions that could not be solved.
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- Explains gordon allport's view that prejudice is based on faulty generalization towards a group or member of the group. in his book, he states that there are different stages of prejudice.
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- Explains that prejudice in addition to suppression results in expression. a "genuine prejudice" is considered the primary motivation behind it all.
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- Explains that a study on the influence of consensus and intergroup behaviors showed that interventions, framed around changing negative beliefs towards out-group members, could potentially be an effective way of changing existing stereotypes.
- Opines that the district's student population consists of 60% caucasian, 25% african american, 10% hispanic, and 5% mixed race and other ethnicities.
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- Argues that critical inquiry can help educators identify and deconstruct heteronormative obstacles within and between identities. steele and aronson examined how a person's race can change with certain life events.
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- Analyzes the concept of prejudice, as it relates to racial inequality and discrimination, in the emmanuel ame church shooting scenario.
- Analyzes how thrasher recaptured the events of the shooting spree at emmanuel ame church, and highlighted the contemporary status of racism in america.
- Analyzes the causes of prejudice in society, including stereotyping and social competition. the perpetrator expressed stereotypical idealization of the african american community.
- Explains that economic and political competition in social circles contributes to the development of prejudice. dissolved social boundaries become points of social contact and interaction between members of different races.
- Explains that attitudes contribute to the development of prejudice in society. positive attitudes between different racial groups are vital for societal growth and development.
- Analyzes the counter-argument that attitudes have little to no affects in the promotion of discrimination and racial inequality.
- Explains that discrimination revolves around differences in the racial affiliation of individuals. discrimination involves unfair treatment of other members of society, on the basis of their perceived limitations.
- Explains that members affiliated to elite racial groups in society are more likely to develop prejudiced attitudes. empowerment arises from established social and political structures of interaction.
- Explains the importance of equal-status for intergroup contact, which revolves around its relationship with racial prejudice.
- Argues that the reduction of racial prejudice will require the maintenance of equal-status for intergroup contacts in society.
- Explains that racial inequality and prejudice are deeply established in the operations of societal structures.
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- Concludes their paper by discussing what happens when we allow biases and prejudices to affect our actions toward others, and what we can do to prevent or eliminate discrimination.
- Explains that prejudice and discrimination push people apart instead of bringing us together. their religion, race, height, nationality, and gender are factors that most people make quick judgments about.
- Opines that discriminatory behaviors involve some form of exclusion or rejection. discrimination denigrates the individual's ability and may question their being as a person.
- Explains that discrimination is part of a systematic use of power. the enslavement of africans in the united states, the official domination of blacks by white in south africa, and hitler's widespread extermination of jews are historic examples of systematic, legal
- Opines that immigrants and different races are not always well-treated when they come to the u.s.
- Explains that people of color make up the majority of those living in neighborhoods located within 1.8 miles of the nation’s hazardous waste facilities.
- Explains that a commission for racial justice study found that three of the five largest waste facilities dealing with hazardous materials in the united states are located in poor black communities.
- Explains that living near toxic waste facilities and living in low-income housing affects almost every aspect of the community's lives. homes, schools, and the workplace are deemed unsafe because of environmental hazards.
- Opines that children of color and hispanics living in poor areas are more likely to attend schools filled with asbestos, live in homes with peeling led paint, and play in parks that are contaminated.
- Opines that whites and blacks are treated as animals, while black women/men aren't human enough to garner respect. over the years people of color have been belittled even with our freedom.
- Opines that the american dream is the concept that one can come to this country and if they work hard and obey the laws, there's no limit to what they can achieve.
- Opines that people lack education or refuse to be educated on the topic in order to stop discrimination.
1189 wordsRead More - Superiority of Races in Sinclair Lewis' Babbittanalytical essayPascoe, Elaine. Racial Prejudice: Why Can't We Overcome?. 2nd ed. New York: Franklin Watts, 1997. 21+ 33+ 79-80+ 99+ 116.
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- Analyzes how george f. babbitt and his acquaintances are bigots toward immigrants and minorities in america.
- Analyzes how babbitt's views toward immigrants and minorities could easily be affiliated with that of racial supremacy.
- Analyzes how babbitt expressed his ideas of bigotry to the reader while thinking to himself, but some newly acquired friends of his shared their thoughts, which he could most definitely have held to be true.
- Analyzes how babbitt and his contemporaries' views became more in the minority and overwhelmingly repudiated by the vast majority. this slow evolving revolution occurred not just in television industry, but also in literature.
- Argues that the us is an ongoing melting pot of cultures and ethnicities that is responsible for assimilation of all these peoples into one american people.
- Argues that bigotry is in the very nature of the human being, waiting to be released. klans, skinheads and nazis are to blame for the continuing presence of racism.
- Argues that the united states and george babbitt have a choice between continuing the path of righteousness or returning to their erstwhile ways of slavery and openly demonstrated racial violence.
- Introduces boyer, paul s, and ezekiel, raphael s. in the enduring vision: a history of the american people.
- Explains the rpt. in ethnic violence. ed. myra h. immell.
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