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Acts of prejudice, discrimination, and stereotyping

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Acts of prejudice, discrimination, and stereotyping must be identified and eliminated in all areas of society and especially in the workplace. These attitudes and actions affect employee working relationships and team dynamics. Prejudice, discrimination, and stereotypes can affect hiring practices, employee reviews, and task assignments. In this assignment, you also discuss ways to eliminate or diminish the presence of these issues in the United States.

Imagine you work in middle management at a medium-sized furniture manufacturing facility. You have been asked to contribute to developing your company’s new diversity training. You are assigned to prepare the section on stereotypes, prejudice, and discrimination.

Create a 5- to 10-slide presentation, with speaker notes and at least 3 images, that includes the following:
Definitions of the following terms:
Stereotypes
Prejudice
Discrimination
At least 1 example each of stereotypes, prejudice, and discrimination
Causes of stereotypes, prejudice, and discrimination
Challenges that people face because of stereotypes, prejudice, and discrimination
Ways that stereotypes, prejudice, and discrimination can be eliminated

Culture, Norms, Ideology, Power, Stereotypes, Discrimination, Institutionalized Discrimination

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Define the following concepts: Culture, Norms, Ideology, Power, Stereotypes, Discrimination, Institutionalized Discrimination, Prejudice, Stigma, Oppression, Resistance, Equality, Equity, Social Justice. An example for each concept.

 

 

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“Too many people are judged by the color of their skin rather than the quality of their mind. However, legal remedies will never cause the changes necessary in perception to truly effect racial equality.”

Discussion:

Using your reading in this course so far and other research, discuss the ethical ramifications of this statement.

This option asks you to discuss whether legal approaches help overcome discrimination or do they just cover up the discriminatory attitudes without changing them? And if so, what approach needs to be taken to change discriminatory attitudes?

 

 

 

Political, economic, and contextual factors that have contributed to the prejudice, discrimination

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• Analyze the social, political, economic, and contextual factors that have contributed to the prejudice, discrimination, and assimilation experienced by the identity group you have chosen to analyze.
• Describe a possible future scenario of identity group interaction in the country you chose to examine based on the trends you see emerging in that country. Does the country trend toward multiculturalism or pluralism?
• Justify the reasoning behind your outlook.

 

Racism, discrimination, white privilege

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Now that you have read a bit about racism, discrimination, white privilege, answer the following questions.

How has the color of your skin, or gender identity either given you privileges or difficulties in your community or schooling?
Describe a time when you were silent about any form of discrimination you witnessed anywhere.
Why were you silent?

Discrimination

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Discuss the pricing policy of price discrimination. Provide the economic
reasoning for movie theaters, airlines, and many other businesses to charge
customers different prices based on time of the day, age, and purchase dates.
Why?
Provide an example of a price discrimination for a good or service that you
considered unfair. Do you still believe that the discrimination is unjustifiable?

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“Today it is perfectly legal to discriminate against criminals in nearly all the ways that it was once was legal to discriminate against African Americans. Explain and evaluate this claim.

 

 

Discussion #5 (CJ)

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What are ways to prevent and to help multicultural communities so members would not be the recipients of unjust accusation and victimization? What would be one approach you could suggest for a law enforcement agency to prevent such victimization? What would be one suggestion that you would make to a multicultural community agency to prevent discrimination and harassment for those who are unfairly stereotyped? Please provide examples. Cite your sources and provide your references.