Prejudice and Discrimination

Question 1

What is prejudice?

Answer 1

• Prejudice is an attitudes/opinions about certain groups/individuals.
  -e.g. all youths wearing hoodies are dangerous

Question 2

what is a stereotype?

Answer 2

• a fixed idea/image of a person
  e.g. teenagers who wear hoodies are dangerous

Question 3

what is discrimination?

Answer 3

• whether you act on your behavior.
• e.g. you see a person who is wearing a hoodie, and then you cross the road.

Question 4

What three parts is prejudice composed of?

Answer 4

• affect - how you feel about something
• behaviour - what you do about it
• cognition - what you know about it

Question 5

What is Allport’s 5 possible stages of discrimination?

Answer 5

• anti-locution
• avoidance
• discrimination
• physical attack
• extermination

Question 6

Allport’s 5 possible stages of discrimination - what is anti-locution?

Answer 6

• Hate speech about another group of people, harmless but can affect self esteem

Question 7

Allport’s 5 possible stages of discrimination - what is avoidance?

Answer 7

• avoid members of another group, may involved exclusion or isolation

Question 8

Allport’s 5 possible stages of discrimination - what is discrimination?

Answer 8

• denying the group opportunities, goods or services, intention is to harm the group by stopping them achieving their goals

Question 9

Allport’s 5 possible stages of discrimination - what is physical attack?

Answer 9

• hate crimes

Question 10

Allport’s 5 possible stages of discrimination - what is extermination?

Answer 10

• Genocide, wars created - getting rid of the group for good.

Question 11

How does social identity theory explain prejudice and discrimination?

Answer 11

• This theory suggests that all humans are prejudiced because we like to put ourselves into groups. We feel good knowing that there are other people like us. We make ourselves even better by insulating groups we don’t belong to and emphasizing all that is bad them.

Question 12

What are the main 3 theories to try and explain prejudice and discrimination?

Answer 12

• Social Identity theory
• Realistic group theory
• Authoritarian personality theory

Question 13

How does Realistic Group conflict theory explain prejudice and discrimination?

Answer 13

• This theory suggests that prejudice develops when two groups are in conflict with each other because they are both competing for the same thing.

Question 14

How does Authoritarian personality theory explain prejudice and discrimination?

Answer 14

• This theory suggests that people vary in how prejudiced they are. Some people will be very hostile against different groups, whilst others will be much more tolerant. Prejudice is down to the sort of personality we have; strongly prejudiced people have an authoritarian personality, which has developed through the way they have been brought up.