Lehman College Race and Ethnicity in Society

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.

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What is prejudice?

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What is discrimination?

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What role do prejudice and discrimination play in a multiethnic society?

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What is an ethnic stereotype?

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What is the difference between prejudice and discrimination?

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What is micro-discrimination?

• w3r7
  What is macro-discrimination?

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What is structural discrimination?

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According to normative theories, why do people acquire prejudice?

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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.