Contemporary social inequalities

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What did Lippman say about stereotypes
They are general cognitive structures
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What did the Katz and Berely study find?
They found a link between stereotypes and prejudice.
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What is Adorno's authoritarian personality?
Stereotypes combined with prejudice leads to violence.
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Who was the first person to suggest that stereotypes were natural?
Allport suggested that stereotypes were natural, because the world is too complex for humans to understand.
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Do stereotypes change over time?
Yes, they are just value judgements as it depends on the time the stereotype was developed.
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Stereotypes of depression
Introverted, lazy, alone, anhedonia
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Stereotypes of schizophrenia
violent, insane, antisocial, unpredictable
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How does the media criminalise mental illness?
They create scare stories of the mentally insane, and peddle fear.
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How does Pickering describe stereotypes?
Suggests they have a function for marking and maintaining norms of behaviour.
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What is stereotype threat?
The feeling that one is the target of demeaning stereotypes and is more likely to conform to those stereotypes.
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Who benefits from stereotypes?
Film industry, media, politics.
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