Xavier University Notes on Prejudice, Stereotypes, and Discrimination PDF

# Xavier University ## Ageism - Negative attitudes held against the young or elderly. ## Lookism - Prejudice against those who do not measure up to the standards of beauty. - The visual victims are overweight, undersized, and dark skinned people. ## Religious Intolerance - Prejudice against th...

# Xavier University ## Ageism - Negative attitudes held against the young or elderly. ## Lookism - Prejudice against those who do not measure up to the standards of beauty. - The visual victims are overweight, undersized, and dark skinned people. ## Religious Intolerance - Prejudice against those who are followers of religions other than one's own. ## For Avan ### Xavier University ### Levels of Conflict - Intrapersonal - conflict with the self. - Interpersonal - conflict between and among people. - Intragroup - conflict within the group. - Intergroup - conflict between and among groups. - National - conflict within that a country a state. - International - conflict between and among nations. ### Types of Conflict | Behavior | Goal | |---|---| | Same | Same | | Diff. | Same | | Same | Diff. | | Diff. | Diff. | ### Myths About Conflict - Conflict is Competing - *winning* is not the goal in resolving conflicts. - ✓ Learning, growing, and cooperating are the goals for resolving conflicts. ### Personal Approaches to Conflict - Avoidance. - Competing/Controlling. - Accommodating. - Compromise. - Transcend. ### Conflict is a natural part of life. ### Conflict is a situation of change. ### Conflict are seeds of growth. ## No Conflict, No Development. ## Xavier University ## Prejudice, Stereotype, and Discrimination - One of the problems in this world is how people think negatively and act on something without any basis or appropriate information. - This attitude inflicts uttering of negative opinions and doing negative acts towards a person. - "Our lives begin to end the day we become silent about things that matter." - Martin Luther King Jr. ### Prejudice - It is the negative feeling or attitude towards a person or a group even if it lacks basis. - Negative feeling and attitude. ### Stereotype - Refers to the negative opinion about a person or group based on incomplete knowledge or information. - Negative opinion. ### Discrimination - Prefers to the negative actions toward members of specific social groups that may be manifested in avoidance, aversion, or violence. - Negative actions or avoidance. ### Prejudice, Stereotype, and Discrimination - If you are stereotyping a person, it means that you have prejudice on that person and soon will discriminate that person depending on the degree of your prejudice. ### Facts... - People are being unkind toward those who differ from them in terms of skin color, and other physical attributed, ethnicity, religion, sex, gender, or socioeconomic class. ## Xavier University - We made "differences". ### Types of Prejudice - Racism - Sexism - Heterosexism. - Classism. - Ageism. - Lookism. - Religious Intolerance - Unguicism ### Racism - It is the belief that one's own cultural or racial heritage is innately superior to others, hence, the lack of respect or appreciation for those who belong to a different race. ### Sexism - It is a system of attitudes, actions, and structures that subordinates others on the basis of their sex where the usual victims are women. ### Heterosexism - It is a negative attitude towards members of the LGBTQ. ### Classism - Distancing from and perceiving the poor as "the others". ### Linguicism - A negative attitude which members of dominant language groups hold against non-dominant language groups.