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unit 1 - Coggle Diagram
unit 1
Prejudice
an unfair pre-judgement based on stereotyping; it refers to internally held
biases. It can be institutional, but it is always interpersonal.
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Oppression
is the systematic weight of prejudice and discrimination on the people it effects. It is when people reduce the potential for other people to be fully human, for example, denying people language, education and other opportunities that might make them become more fully human in both mind and body.
Oppression is a conscious or unconscious system of discrimination in which one social group exploits another. It is a broader system of inequality which fuses together institutional and systematic discrimination, personal (individual) bias and social prejudice. It has no boundaries and can happen at all levels: individual (attitudes / behaviours of people), institutional (schools / religion / business / laws / policies / practices), or societal (dominant ideas / norms i.e. family). Oppression is pervasive, it involves more than one individual and is much more difficult to eliminate
What is stereotype?
beliefs and opinions about characteristics, attributes, and
behaviours of members of various social groups.
self-fulfilling prophecy: behaviour in which one's inaccurate expectations about a
person's behaviour prompt stereotypical behaviours
self-stereotyping: the process by which people belonging to a stigmatised social
group tend to describe themselves more with stereotypical traits
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group, then experience anxiety that they might confirm the stereotype, undermining
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attributional ambiguity: describes the difficulty that members of stigmatised or
negatively stereotyped groups may have in interpreting feedback
Discrimination
is a behaviour, it is the externalisation of prejudice. Discrimination is the act of treating others differently (positively or favourably/negatively or unfairly) purely based on their group membership (the negative attitude spills over to treating someone better / worse).
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four types
- Direct discrimination (abuse is obvious and deliberate i.e. wage discrimination e.g. an
employer offers women lower wages than men for the same job);
- Indirect discrimination (not directly intended but actions restrict a person or group, i.e. where there is a practice, policy or rule which applies to everyone in the same way, but it has a worse effect on some people than others e.g. prohibiting certain hairstyles in your school)
- Harassment (unwanted behaviour that you find offensive e.g. offensive e-mails or joking
that is offensive to you)
- Victimisation (singling a person out to enact cruel and unjust treatment e.g. bullying).
Controversial issue
is one which often results in dispute or disagreement. Controversial issues are uncomfortable and often reveal differences in opinion, particularly in diverse and multicultural classroom settings.
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