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Prejudice

…. Prejudice. Defining Prejudice. an unfavorable opinion or feeling formed beforehand or without knowledge, thought, or reason. unreasonable feelings, opinions, or attitudes, especially of a hostile nature, regarding a racial, religious, or national group.

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Prejudice

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  1. ….. Prejudice

  2. Defining Prejudice • anunfavorableopinionorfeelingformedbeforehandorwithoutknowledge,thought,or reason. • unreasonablefeelings,opinions, or attitudes, especially of a hostile nature, regarding a racial, religious,ornational group. • a biased opinion made on emotion or stereotypes rather than reason.

  3. Most Common Prejudices • Prejudice against a race, white/black. • Prejudice in religion, Christian/Muslim. • Age prejudice, young or old.

  4. Prejudice misconceptions • Prejudice is not the same as stereotyping, but stereotyping is a part of being prejudiced. • Stereotyping is ‘togiveafixed form’ to something.

  5. Cognitive Roots of Prejudice • We often categorize things in our lives including people this is called stereotyping • We may associate Muslims with 9/11 even though we all know that there is a small group of people responsible and not the race as a whole.

  6. Cognitive Roots of Prejudice • Stereotyping is a component prejudice Its when you set a rigid belief about the characteristics of a group. It is an extension of our predisposition to categorize. However harmless it seems it becomes a problem when categorization is severe and over generalized. This leads to discrimination.

  7. Emotional Roots of Prejudice • The main emotional root of prejudice is anger, frustration, and aggression. • The Scapegoat Theory and the Realistic Group Conflict Theory explain emotional prejudice. • Some personality traits lead to higher prejudice. • Desire for high status & belonging • Ethnocentricity- believing that one’s own cultural or social group is superior to all others

  8. The Scapegoat Theory • The Scapegoat theory is a displacement of anger and aggression upon a weaker party that is unlikely to fight back. Many people displace their anger on people outside of their “group”, usually to make themselves feel better and release their anger. • A store owner in an inner city might develop a prejudice against all African-Americans, thinking that they all are thieves and criminals because an African-American person stole merchandise from him. He may take his anger about the stolen merchandise and be hostile, and rude to all other African Americans that come into his store.

  9. The Realistic Group Conflict Theory • The Realistic Group Conflict Theory is the belief that prejudice, stereotypes, and general racism are due to actual and realistic competition between different groups for resources that are scarce. • Jobs: Caucasians could be prejudice and say that they don’t like immigrants, especially Mexican immigrants because they are taking away jobs from Americans. Jobs are scarce and in our economy everyone is having a hard time finding a job so some people might develop a prejudice because they are afraid that they will not have a job when a Mexican immigrant does, so they are competing over resources.

  10. Roots of Social Prejudice • Unequal status • The Self fulfilling prophecy • Stereotype threat

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