1. Complete the cartoon activity

2. Prejudice and Discrimination

3. Sneeches https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XMolzESn4oI

4. Prejudice
Simply called “prejudgment,” a prejudice is an unjustifiable (usually negative) attitude toward a group and its members. Prejudice is often directed towards different cultural, ethnic, or gender groups.
Components of Prejudice
Beliefs (stereotypes)
Emotions (hostility, envy, fear)
Predisposition to act (discrimination)
OBJECTIVE 13| Identify three components of prejudice.

5. Reign of Prejudice
Prejudice works at the conscious and [more at] the unconscious level. Therefore, prejudice is more like a knee-jerk response than a conscious decision.

6. How Prejudiced are People?
Over the duration of time many prejudices against interracial marriage, gender, homosexuality, and minorities have decreased.
OBJECTIVE 14| Contrast overt and subtle forms of prejudice, and give examples of each.

7. Racial & Gender Prejudice
Americans today express much less racial and gender prejudice, but prejudices still exist.

8. Social Roots of Prejudice
Why does prejudice arise?
Social Inequalities
Social Divisions
Emotional Scapegoating
Need to categorize
OBJECTIVE 15| Discuss the social factors that contribute to prejudice.

9. Social Inequality
Prejudice develops when people have money, power, and prestige, and others do not. Social inequality increases prejudice.

10. Sources of Prejudice Frustration-aggression theory
People who are frustrated in their goals may turn their anger away from the proper target toward another, less powerful target. (Scapegoat)
Authoritarian personality
Personality pattern characterized by rigid conventionality, exaggerated respect for authority, and hostility toward those who defy social norms
Racism
Prejudice and discrimination directed at particular racial group

11. Essentially….
Prejudice = attitude
Discrimination = behavior

12. Social Divisions
Ingroup: People with whom one shares a common identity.
Outgroup: Those perceived as different from one’s ingroup.
Ingroup Bias: The tendency to favor one’s own group.
Mike Hewitt/ Getty Images
Scotland’s famed “Tartan Army” fans.

13. Emotional Roots of Prejudice
Prejudice provides an outlet for anger [emotion] by providing someone to blame. After 9/11 many people lashed out against innocent Arab-Americans.
OBJECTIVE 16| Explain how Scapegoating illustrates the emotional component of prejudice.

14. Cognitive Roots of Prejudice
One way we simplify our world is to categorize. We categorize people into groups by stereotyping them.
OBJECTIVE 17| Cite four ways that cognitive processes help create and maintain prejudice.
Michael S. Yamashita/ Woodfin Camp Associates
Foreign sunbathers may think Balinese look alike.

15. Crayola

16. We shall overcome
Recategorize – expand a schema to see how it relates to others. Not protestant vs. Catholic but instead both under Christianity.
Controlled Processing – purposefully putting on their shoes. Method to learn tolerance
Increase contact between groups.
Equal status
One-on-one contact
Come together to cooperate, not compete
Should not be contrived

17. Class assignment/Homework

18. game