Overview
Part 1) Read Chap 3 of the textbook and based on the info presented in the chapter and the notes answer the questions listed below.
w3r1
What is prejudice?
w3r2
What is discrimination?
w3r3 What role do prejudice and discrimination play in a multiethnic society?
w3r4
What is an ethnic stereotype?
w3r5 What is the difference between prejudice and discrimination?
w3r6
What is micro-discrimination?
- w3r7
What is macro-discrimination?
w3r8
What is structural discrimination?
w3r9 According to normative theories, why do people acquire prejudice?
w3r10 According to power-conflict theories, why do prejudice and discrimination emerge in multiethnic societies?
Part 2)Watch the video, A Class Divided, listed below and answer the questions listed below.
- PBS Frontline Video: "A Class Divided" (55 min)
An unusual 1970 experiment in an Iowa elementary school and its follow-up in 1985.
https://youtu.be/PnNQxTZTMtM?si=9yoqsbreV0zc0X2Z
https://youtu.be/1mcCLm_LwpE?si=bApUWURtEUmCI7-T
Questions:
W3v1: In what sense is this an example of discrimination?
- W3v2: How were students affected by the experiment emotionally & behaviorally?
Part3) Quiz
Click the above link to take the quiz for Week 3, covering Chap 3.