Prejudice and Discrimination

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Across
  1. 2. associations/ unconscious beliefs and attitudes about members of various groups within society
  2. 4. differential treatment based on group membership; a behavior
  3. 7. status/ a status that overshadows all of the other statuses that an individual occupies in its effect on interaction and the self-concept
  4. 8. threat/ the recognition on the part of individuals that anything they do has the potential to confirm a negative stereotype about their group
  5. 11. discrimination/ discrimination that occurs at the societal level (macro level) and results from the way social institutions operate on a day-to-day basis
  6. 13. racism/ a form of racism that is rooted in the belief that everyone should be, and is , treated equally combined with a failure to recognize the structural roots of prevailing patterns of racial/ethnic stratification
Down
  1. 1. White bias/ the association of central aspects of the American identity with Whiteness
  2. 3. a group that lacks access to important societal resources and thus is disadvantaged ad toward the bottom of society’s stratification hierarchy
  3. 5. theory/ a theory that states that people observe their own behaviors, much like they observe the behaviors of others, and assume that they hold attributes that are consistent with their actions; the idea that people infer their attitudes from their behavior
  4. 6. racial attitudes/ individual-level (or micro-level) prejudice; a negative attitude about a member of a group based on an overgeneralization without regard for individual variation within the group
  5. 9. alchemy/ the perceptual process through which the same behavior is seen as positive when it is exhibited by members of one group and negative when it is exhibited by members of another group (typically a group that is the target of prejudice and discrimination within society)
  6. 10. negative racial attitudes and discriminatory behaviors that are consistent with broader institutional patterns
  7. 12. cognitive representations that enable people to make sense of situations and events by directing their attention to certain aspects of reality and away from other aspects
  8. 13. identity intervention/ a micro-level strategy of intervention that involves manipulating the social setting to facilitate the creation of common (inclusive) identities that supersede in-group/out-group divisions based on race/ethnicity
  9. 14. racism/ a subtle form of racism (e.g., symbolic racism, color-blind racism, and laissez-faire racism)