O papel de representações sobre raça e classe social no preconceito e discriminação

• Ano de defesa: 2016
• Autor(a) principal: Lima, Tiago Jessé Souza de
• Tipo de documento: Tese
• Tipo de acesso: Acesso aberto
• Idioma: por
• Instituição de defesa: Universidade Federal da Paraíba; Brasil; Psicologia Social; Programa de Pós-Graduação em Psicologia Social; UFPB
• Palavras-chave em Português: Cor da pele; Skin color; Classe social; Discriminação; Preconceito; Social class; Discrimination; CIENCIAS HUMANAS::PSICOLOGIA
• Link de acesso: https://repositorio.ufpb.br/jspui/handle/tede/8543

This work aims to investigate how skin color and social class interact to predict discrimination. Specifically, we analyse how the information about social class affects the judgment of black and white targets who have committed an offense; whether racial prejudice and class motivate the condemnation of black and poor people, and how the anti-prejudice norm influence this effect. To achieve these goals, we conducted a theoretical study and six empirical research, resulting in three articles that make up this thesis. The first article aims to review the literature on the effects of skin color and social class and the interaction effects of these two dimensions in categorization and social judgment. The literature review indicated the existence of few studies in social psychology of racism that take into account the role of social class in racial discrimination. We proposed that the interaction between skin color and social class is the best way to conceptualize the effects of color and class. In other words, the subtypes formed by the conjunction of color and class are more significant than take in account these categories separately. The second article propose that individuals use information of the socioeconomic status when evaluating the criminal conduct of a person, absolving this person when he is white and condemning this person when he is black. In Study 1 (N = 255) we found that the information of skin color and class affect the judgment of targets. In comparison with control conditions, black low class are more condemned than white low class targets. Study 2 (N = 282) replicates this findings and demonstrated that class and racial prejudice moderated the influence of class and skin color information’s on judgments. Those results contribute to clarify the conjunct effect of skin color and class information on the judgment of targets, and provide first evidence in the differential use of socioeconomic class in social judgments, attenuating the condemnation of white and enhance the condemnation of black targets. The third article evaluate the effect of information about low social class in the social judgment of white and black targets, in contexts where anti-prejudice norm is salient. In four studies, we found that information about the low social class increased compliance with the condemnation of a suspect of committing an offense only when it is described as black. Study 1 (N = 160) indicated that information about low social class increases the condemnation of black but not for white targets. Furthermore, studies 2 (N = 170) and 3 (N = 176) showed that the antidiscrimination norm inhibits the condemnation of black target only when the information about social class is not provided. When information about skin color and social are available, low social class blacks targets are more discriminated (Study 4; N = 134). The results suggest that information about low social class negatively affects the social judgment of black (but not whites) targets because social class can serve as non-prejudiced justification for racial discrimination. Taken together, the results obtained in this thesis indicate that information about lower social class is used in a differential way in the social judgment of blacks and whites targets, increasing the condemnation only for black targets. Information about social class has a supporting effect, but very important in social judgment about white and black people, because it facilitates social support to condemn black people who have committed crimes.