Discuss the contact hypothesis.
What will be an ideal response?
Answers will vary. Negative images create and reinforce racial and ethnic stereotypes, but people can decrease labeling and selective perception. The contact hypothesis posits that the more people get to know members of a minority group personally, the less likely they are to be prejudiced against that group. Such contacts are most effective when dominant and minority group members have approximately the same ability and status (e.g., both are coworkers or bosses), when they share common goals (e.g., work on a project), when they cooperate rather than compete, and if an authority figure supports intergroup interaction (e.g., an employer requires white supervisors to mentor minority workers).
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a. conflict b. symbolic interactionist c. functionalism d. feminist
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a. white men. b. Latino men. c. Asian men. d. black men.
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a. social production. b. social reproduction. c. family-wage production. d. industrial reproduction.
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b. people are interconnected in close social networks regardless of their sex, race, and social class. c. the world is a small place for most people in it. d. the world is only a small place for those in one's immediate network (those who share the same race, class, and sex).