1. Prejudice and Discrimination
Unit 3

2. 1. Can be positive or negative
Intergroup Relations
Prejudice: An attitude towards others based on their membership in a particular group
1. Can be positive or negative

3. Intergroup relations
Discrimination: When prejudice is expressed in behavior; unequal treatment
Legalized discrimination: upheld by law
Institutionalized discrimination: outgrowth of structure of society

4. Table Talk
Is it possible for a person to have prejudice attitudes and not discriminate?
Is it possible for a person to discriminate and to not be prejudice?

5. Intergroup Relations
Merton’s Patterns of Prejudice and Discrimination: Individuals can combine discriminatory behavior and prejudicial attitudes in four possible ways……

6. Intergroup prejudice
Stereotypes: mental images in which specific mental, physical and behavioral traits are uncritically attributed to members of a group

7. Intergroup Relations Development of Racial Prejudice
Children are sensitive to differences as early as 4 or 5
Values, beliefs, stereotypes, etc. that nourish prejudice are learned in the home and from other major agents of socialization
The self-fulfilling prophecy takes place when traits attributed to minority group may be adopted by the minority group

8. Tendency to evaluate your own group as superior Out-group homogeneity
Ethnocentrism
Tendency to evaluate your own group as superior
Out-group homogeneity
Cognitive process that accentuates differences of those outside an individual’s group and minimize differences within individual’s group
Group members assumed to have more similar attitudes than they really do

9. wusses

10. Reducing prejudice and discrimination
Historically
1954, hope was integration would reduce prejudice and discrimination
In many cases, integration heightened the problem

11. Reducing prejudice and discrimination
Successful integration requires:
Firm endorsement by those in authority
Absence of competition among members of different racial groups
Equal status of groups
Contact that would permit learning about each other

12. Table talk
With your table, discuss what is the difference between prejudice and discrimination.
How have your attitudes of prejudice changed?