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PREJUDICE AND DISCRIMINATION

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Prejudice is a complex mix of mental perceptions, associated emotions, and attitudes toward members of another group that often results in social distance and manifests in overt acts of discrimination. An important first step in addressing the roots of prejudice and discrimination is to trace the historical sources and the psychological reinforcements.

In this Assignment, you will explore historical examples of sexual and gender prejudice and discrimination, drawing on how prejudice is perpetuated across generations and analyzing the implications of persistent prejudice and gender inequality in society.

Prejudice and discrimination.

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Write a talk, that you would deliver to an audience about the research concerning prejudice and discrimination. Explain and discuss using your own words, a minimum of three concepts or themes that you think would be important for your audience to know about prejudice. Your talk should inform them about information they might be surprised to learn.

Important Points:

1. Be certain to incorporate specific terms, issues, and/or research studies in your talk. Write in a way that would be understandable to an audience who is unfamiliar with course content.

2. The minimum number of concepts or themes to include is three but including more may lead to a higher grade.

3. What you write must be framed as a “talk.” It should not be an outline of three or more concepts or themes without a narrative.

4. Your talk must be based on information covered in the course. It should not be based on your opinion.

 

 

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https://www.pbs.org/video/frontline-class-divided/
After you have watched this video, I would like for you to write a two-page paper (not counting the name and title page). In this paper I would like for you to: 1) Define and explain the terms Dominant Group and Minority Group; b) explain what it means when sociologists say that Race and Ethnic Inequality are Socially Constructed, and c) explain what Dominant Group and Minority Group is being Socially Constructed in the video experiment.
2) Define and contrast the terms Prejudice and Discrimination. Then provide specific examples from the video where each is created both formally (by the rules and regulations of the class) and informally (voluntarily and personally) among these research subjects. Pay particular attention to the order in which this happens. The formal rules of the class are the start of this process. Everything else, the research subjects add themselves even though they are not required to do so, and all of them said at the start of the video that it is not right to treat people differently.
3) What Individual and Social-level consequences resulted from the Social Construction of Inequality within this society of students? In other words, how did this experiment impact individual kids in both the Dominant and Minority groups, and how did this experiment impact the class as a whole?
4) What is the underlying sociological lesson we can take away from this video about the causes of Categoric Inequality? To be clear, THE LESSON IS NOT THAT ALL THE KIDS WILL NEVER BE RACIST OR PREDUJICED, OR THAT THEY LEARNED A VALUABLE LESSON IN WHAT IT IS LIKE TO BE DISCRIMINATED AGAINST. If the answer was this simple the whole problem of Racial Inequality would have gone away a long time ago. These kids and nearly everyone in our society thinks “that everyone should all get along and be treated fairly”. The lesson we are trying to figure out here is more problematic and complicated. The lesson we are trying to figure out is, how and why groups of people end up creating and maintaining societies which have Racial Inequality? As an adult sociology researcher watching this experiment, what does the Conflict Perspective, and specifically the Dominant Group experience have to tell us about the causes of group-level social inequality?

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From its origins in 1941 through the present, affirmative action programs have been controversial. Supreme Court rulings in the late 1970s and 1980s upheld the principle of affirmative action but since 1989, a more conservative court has been ruling against “race-conscious remedies.” This discussion will require you to address the value of these programs.

In order to prepare for this discussion, you must first complete the following readings.

Read Chapter 3-Prejudice and Discrimination, focusing on the causes and consequences of both concepts.
Review the section on The Affirmative-Action Controversy, focusing on the arguments for and against affirmative action.
Identify one outside source that addresses affirmative-action or reverse-discrimination to support your discussion. Share your reference with the class by inserting a link or the article as an attachment.

After you have completed your readings, select only ONE of the following questions, and post your response. Choose 1 or 2.

Explain what affirmative action as a social program was supposed to accomplish. Discuss if, in your opinion, it has been successful or a failure? Support your argument with facts.
What claims have been made regarding reverse discrimination and how does it relate to affirmative action? Do you agree or disagree with the issues raised? Support your argument with facts.