prejudice and discrimination

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Prejudice and Discrimination

PREJUDICE

• Prejudice is an unjustified or incorrect attitude (usually negative) towards an individual based solely on the individual’s membership of a social group.

• For example, a person may hold prejudiced views towards a certain race or gender etc.

Types of Prejudice

• Racism

• Sexism

• Classicism

• Homophobia

• Religious prejudice

Racism• is the attitude that people of a certain race

are inferior. People with this attitude tend to treat people from this supposed inferior race badly. It may even lead to murder.

Sexism • If a person is discriminated against because of If a person is discriminated against because of

their gender (that is, whether they are male or their gender (that is, whether they are male or female), this is called sexism. It has been female), this is called sexism. It has been common in the past for women to be common in the past for women to be discriminated against by men who have the discriminated against by men who have the power to do this. power to do this.

• This has led to women being left to look after the This has led to women being left to look after the home while their husbands have done ‘more home while their husbands have done ‘more important things’. As a result, many women have important things’. As a result, many women have been denied the chance to develop and use been denied the chance to develop and use their talents for the good of all.their talents for the good of all.

Classicism

• a biased on distinctions made between social or economic classes .

Homophobia:

• This is when a person feels they are discriminated against because they are homosexual (gay).

Religious prejudice• Although all religions teach about love,

sometimes their attitudes towards other religions are prejudice. This comes from an opinion that their religion is superior. Religious prejudice, however, can also happen when a person with no religious beliefs is prejudiced against one or all religions.

Why are people prejudiced ?

• They may have had a band experience at the hands of someone from the group that they are prejudiced against.

• A victim of prejudice themselves. • Learned attitudes from the home. • Lack of education. • A group may be used as ‘scapegoats’. This

means that they are blamed for a particular problem and are mistreated as a result

Way to REDUCE Prejudice

• Social psychologist believe that stereotyping and prejudice are not inevitable. Yet under the right conditions, prejudice toward particular groups can be reduced.

• Therefore, we now turn to some of the techniques that they have developed in their attempts to reduce prejudice

ON LEARNING NOT TO HATE

• Children acquire prejudiced attitudes from their parents.

- Strongly identify with their parents• * Participating in institutions• * Having peers that justify

discrimination• - Help to maintained prejudice attitude.

RECATEGORIZATION: CHANGING THE BOUNDARIES

• Shifts in the boundaries between our ingroup (‘”us”) (‘”us”) and some outgroup (“them”)(“them”). . As a result, people formerly viewed as outgroup members may now be viewed as belonging to the ingroup and consequently are viewed more positively.

SOCIAL INFLUENCE AS A MEANS OF REDUCING

PREJUDICE• Social influence plays an important role

in both the maintenance and • reduction of prejudice.• If people can be induced to believe that

their prejudiced views are “out of line” “out of line” with those of most other people –especially those they respect- they may well change those views toward a less prejudiced

Discrimination• The definition of discrimination is the act of

prejudice against a person because they have a certain set of characteristics. Discriminated characteristics can include disability, age, gender reassignment, religion, race, sex and sexual orientation.

• Discrimination can take many forms but in many countries around the world there are laws prohibiting any form of discrimination.

Type of discrimination• Racial and ethnic discrimination

• Discrimination on the basis of nationality

• Sexual orientation discrimination

• Religious discrimination

• Disability discrimination

• Employment discrimination

Racial and ethnic discrimination• in South Africa. Apartheid (literally

"separateness") was a system of racial segregation that was enforced in South Africa from 1948 to 1994. Non-white people where prevented from voting and lived in separate communities.

Discrimination on the basis of nationality

• National origin discrimination involves treating people (applicants or employees) unfavorably because they are from a particular country or part of the world, because of ethnicity or accent, or because they appear to be of a certain ethnic background (even if they are not).

Sexual orientation discrimination• Sex discrimination also can involve

treating someone less favorably because of his or her connection with an organization or group that is generally associated with people of a certain sex.

Religious discrimination

• valuing or treating a person or group differently because of what they do or do not believe or because of their feelings towards a given religion

Disability discrimination

• Discrimination against people with Discrimination against people with disabilities in favor of people who are not disabilities in favor of people who are not is called is called ableismableism or or disablismdisablism Disability Disability discrimination, which treats non-disabled discrimination, which treats non-disabled individuals as the standard of ‘normal individuals as the standard of ‘normal living’, results in public and private places living’, results in public and private places and services, education, and social work and services, education, and social work that are built to serve 'standard' people, that are built to serve 'standard' people, thereby excluding those with various thereby excluding those with various disabilities disabilities

Employment discrimination

• Employment discrimination occurs when an individual is adversely discriminated against due to any number of factors, including race, skin color, national origin, gender, disability, religion, or age. Here's information on the various types of employment discrimination that happens in hiring and the workplace.

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