Chapter 3  Review questions (i.e., these are not the discussion questions).

Be able to define the various terms.  Note the overlaps and distinctions among the terms. 

Old-fashioned racism

Symbolic racism
Modern racism

Principled conservativism.

Racial ambivalence

Ambivalence amplification

Dominative racists

Aversive racists

1.  Why are survey researchers skeptical about decreased tendency to endorce overt expressions of prejudice? (Note:  the answer lies in the paradox in white Americans beliefs about race as described on page 51).

2.  What are the similarities between Modern and symbolic racism.  What is the primary difference?  Do Modern racist perceive themselves as racist?  Why not?  What is a fundamental issue that critics have raised about these concepts?

3.  What conditions result in ambivalent racist discriminating against blacks ?  What conditions result in aversive racist discriminating against blacks?  Also note that these two theories indicate that there are conditions that result in ambivalent racists and aversive racist being more likely to discriminate against Blacks.

4.  What is the connection between political liberalism and aversive racism?

5.  According to compunction theory, what is the relationship between should-would discrepancies and affective responses by low and high prejudiced individuals?  What implications does this have for prejudice reduction?

6.   What is the association between Modern/Neosexism and Modern Racism?

7.  How are ambivalent sexism and ambivalent racism similar?  How are they different?

8.  What studies indicate that ambivalent prejudice is applied in a similar manner with people with disabilities as well as African Americans?

9.  What makes anti-fat attitudes similar to modern racist attitudes?  What makes them different?

10.  How are values related to prejudice against gay men and lesbians?