Week 3 - Discrimination & Factors Contributing to the Development of Prejudice

Session 6 - Discrimination & Factors Contributing to the Development of Prejudice

Open up with a discussion concerning the holiday homework - media analysis...

Move back on to the relevant PowerPoint presentation - 'Stereotypes, Prejudice and Discrimination'. The key concepts covered in this session include:

• A definition of discrimination
• Ingroups and outgroups
• Intergroup conflict
• Attributions - internal and external
• Fundamental attribution error
• Just world hypothesis

Students will also view Jane Elliot's 'Blue/Brown Eyes Experiment and complete the relevant viewing sheet.

The class / home work that needs to completed is that all students need to read 346 - 348 of the textbook and complete Learning Activity 8.19 in their workbook. This is due to be finished by next session.

Session 7 - The Anatomy of Prejudice

This session will involve students watching the BBC special; 'The Anatomy of Prejudice' and placing answering the relevant viewing sheet.

Session 8 - Factors That May Reduce Prejudice

All students are to read through pages 349 – 357 of the textbook and complete the following:

Under the heading, ‘Factors That May Reduce Prejudice’, develop your own definition and example for the following terms:

• Intergroup Contact
• Sustained Contact
• Mutual Interdependence
• Superordinate Goals
• Equality of Status

Students must the continue to complete the Learning Activities 8.21 (Research Analysis) and 8.22 in your workbooks.