...Prejudice is the attitude or prejudging, usually in a negative way. This word has commonly been used in certain restricted contexts, particularly in the expression 'racial prejudice’. Usually it is referred to as making a judgment about a person based on their race, before receiving information about the particular issue that the person is being judged for. This word is also used to refer to any hostile attitude towards people based on their race. Consequently the word has come to be widely so interpreted in this way in contexts other than those relating to race. There are many forms of prejudice that are used with many cultures throughout the world today. One of the forms is called discrimination. Discrimination is the action that someone portrays when they are prejudice it is also an act of unfair treatment directed against an individual or group of people because one feels superior to the other. An example of prejudice discrimination was during the Holocaust of the Second World War. The holocaust was started when the Nazi group thought their race was a dominant group to all other races and culture. They killed millions of Jews and various others showing their prejudice discrimination towards all other culture. Other examples of prejudice groups that are in America today are the Ku Klux Klan, gangs such as the Hispanic MS13, and the black gang such as the Bloods. All of these prejudice groups believe that they can discriminate to any of the cultures that are set apart from...
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...are negative and hostile. 2. Stereotyping provides a view which may be based on some truths/facts, but is often limited and biased. They tend to be a neat and convenient capsule summary slanted toward a view point of the creator. Other non-critical thinkers can be seduced by stereotypes which simplifies the world. The small element(s) of truth contained in the stereotype seem so obvious and create a hint of credibility. Non-critical thinkers accept the stereotype and may intentionally or unintentional perpetuate and spread it. Part 3 1. Prejudice is a feeling someone may have, simply means to "pre-judge" someone in your mind, due to a characteristic, religious or national origin element; an adverse opinion formed without just grounds or before sufficient knowledge. A stereotype is the actual character or oversimplified image of a particular type of person or thing. 2. The relationship between stereotype and prejudice, is that one is having the wrong impression of the person before meeting them; which is...
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...Prejudice Presented By: Nor Anisa Bt. Musa What is Prejudice? * Everyone comes face to face with prejudice at some time or another. * Prejudice is when we recognizethat we feel and act less positively towards others. * The roots of prejudice can be found in the cognitive and emotional processes. * Prejudice may be perceived as acceptable and justified * All inequality and differential treatment is not perceived and responded to in the same way. The nature and origins of streotyping, prejudice and discrimination * Prejudice, stereotyping and discrimination often overlap. * Prejudice is the feelings we have about particular groups. * Prejudice is a negative prejudgement of a group and its individual members. * Prejudice biases us against others based on the person’s group. * Prejudice is a combination of feelings, inclinations to act and beliefs. * Prejudice is complex and include a component of patronizing affection. * Stereotypes are the cognitive component attitudes towards a social group. * To stereotypes is to generalize. * It is a belief about what a particular group is like * It is a belief about the personal attributes of a group of people. * It is sometimes over generalized, inaccurate and resistant to new information but can be more or less true. Stereotypes Discrimination * Discrimination is the behavioural component or differential actions taken towards others * Prejudice is a negative attitude...
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...Prejudice is defined as a prejudgment, a feeling or an opinion established under no basis. It is when one decides to criticize another without any direct or contact with them or factual substance about them. In today’s world, social stereotypes and prejudices are based on various aspects of human orientation: skin color, racial background, financial background, religious preferences, physical appearance, gender and sexual orientation. There are many reasons behind social prejudices, some include: the ego-defensive reason, and the value-expressive reason. These pre-judgments have managed to create barriers between human beings and in a sense limited the knowledge children might chose to seek. Although some may argue that prejudice is highly due to human nature and human desire to feel superior, most of these prejudices are established by ones surroundings and environment. People sometimes chose to be prejudice against others for various reasons as mentioned above, but all these reasons are in fact a way to create excuses for personal insecurities. People sometimes might hold some prejudices simply because they do not wish to admit certain failures and problems. These problems may include: failure in a war, a corrupt society or even a dysfunctional household. Others might hold prejudices because they wish to portray an aspect in life they value, such as a certain religion. Prejudice is highly due to peoples need to make first impressions; therefore they follow stereotypes when...
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...Prejudice can be caused because of various reasons. Religion, ethnic race and social status are examples of causes of prejudice. Sometimes prejudice is caused by how we are raised. Many times parents pass on prejudice beliefs to their children. A lot people raised in the southern part of the country are prejudice against blacks. In the early to mid 1960’s, prejudice was alive and well in the south. Blacks had their own bathrooms and were forced to ride in the back of city busses. It’s hard to believe that was doing on only 40 years ago. A lot of Middle Eastern countries are very prejudice against women. The Civil War was based on prejudice beliefs. The North wanted to keep slavery and the South wanted to abolish slavery. Many blacks were beat, raped and killed just because of the color of their skin. Schools in the 1950’s were segregated. Some students were forced to ride buses for many miles to prevent whites and blacks from attending the same school. Finally segregation was introduced. It caused a lot of problems, including some riots but eventually people learned to live together and I believe it ended up being a good thing for people and out country. Slavery was stopped shortly after the Civil War but it did not stop people from being prejudice. The only way to stop prejudice is to teach all children from a young age to respect all people. Sometimes parents are not the right people to teach their children because they are already set in their ways and will never change....
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...University of Phoenix Material Stereotypes and Prejudice Worksheet Complete the following exercises, remembering that you are in an academic setting and should remain unbiased, considerate, and professional when completing this worksheet. Part I Select three of the identity categories below and name or describe at least three related stereotypes for each: • Race • Ethnicity • Religion • Gender • Sexual orientation • Age • Disability |Category |Stereotype 1 |Stereotype 2 |Stereotype 3 | |Age |No Experience |To old to understand |Not dependable | |Gender |Men like sports more then women |Women are not strong as men |Men are not clean as women | |Race |Not From United Staes |Don’t speak English |Recieveing government assistance | Part II Answer each question in 50 to 100 words related to those stereotypes. Provide citations for all the sources you use. What are the positive aspects of stereotypes, if any? I don’t believe there is a positive aspect to being prejudice, when you make a decision about a person based on other opinion that is bad. Prejudice can cause you to miss out on meet some of life greatest people because...
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...Stereotypes and Prejudice * Stereotypes are beliefs about a certain group of people based on their membership in a particular group or a small sample of these people. Like any time you grouping races or individuals together and make a judgment about them without knowing them is called a stereotype. It can be positive, negative, or neutral. For example, Jeff thinks that vegetarians are healthy and peace-loving. Those are positive stereotypes because they reflect well on the group. On the other hand, he also thinks that vegetarians are pedantic and holier-than-thou, which are negative stereotypes. Eddie thinks that meat eaters are all strong, due to all the protein they eat - that's a positive stereotype. But he also thinks that they don't care about the environment, which is a negative stereotype. Another example, it may be a stereotype that Asian people love to eat rice. So according to this stereotype, if you are Asian, that automatically means that you will unconditionally love to eat rice. This can already show that generalizations made from stereotypes are not the most reliable to base your judgment on. Both positive and negative stereotypes can have a negative effect on a person. For example, one racial stereotype is that Asian students are really good at math. This is a positive stereotype, but it can make an Asian student feel pressure and feel like a failure if he isn't good at math, which is a negative outcome. * Prejudice is a feeling towards a person...
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...Stereotype and prejudice are common situation all over the world. As Ruchlis mentioned in the article "Stereotype, Prejudice, and Discrimination," he gave us the definition of discrimination, stereotype, and prejudice. Stereotypes are usually formed from improper information about a group of people. It’s common that we have stereotype about a group of people that we are not familiar because we cannot master all aspects of areas, languages, and nations in the world. People are influenced by medium, such as newspaper, TV drama, books, and magazines, immerging in flood of incomplete information or biased statistics. We also acquire information from people who have direct experience. Some of our opinions are formed based on other people’s idea. I’m one of people that suffered from stereotype, and also a perpetrator honestly. I come from northeast of mainland China which people has the stereotype of that area. The image of people live in north of China is strong, tall, and loud. However, I followed my father that means I’m shorter in height. From my early young age, I knew my mom worried about my height. She even spoke out. Each time I walked with my cousin, she would compare my height with my cousin’s. That really made me sad. Some warm-hearted acquaintance suggested my mom cooking more food which containing calcium for me and also advise me to play basketball. Those kind suggestions upset me and made me feel shorter in height is inferior to other people. With many years past,...
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...There is no denying it; we all are prejudice, some more than others. Just imagine yourself walking through an airport terminal. There is a Middle-Eastern man sitting, waiting to get on the same plane that you happen to be boarding. Due to recent events over the past decade, many Americans have a feeling that this man is a terrorist and is going to blow up the plane. Although this is not the truth, this is how most people think. People obtain these prejudices from family, friends and events. When you are growing up your personality, beliefs and lifestyles are formed. Prejudice does not just come out through skin color, but about other qualities such as physical and mental disabilities. Throughout this course we have discussed many different types of prejudices. We learned about Mike Rose, Majora Carter, the Fugees, Jo Goodwin Parker, Lars Eighner, Jane Elliot and others. Each story told another form a prejudice, each equally wrong and powerful. The most common form of prejudice is racism. See this form displayed in Majora Carter’s “Greening the Ghetto”, the Fugees story and Jane Elliot’s “A Class Divided”. Majora Carter is a young educated African American woman who grew up in the ghettos in the South Bronx. During the time of her childhood many of the buildings in her neighborhood were abandoned; landlords were burning their buildings to collect the insurance; light manufacturing industries were moving out and waste facilities were moving in to take their place. Ghettos are...
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...Stereotypes and Prejudice Worksheet Please complete the following exercises, remembering that you are in an academic setting and should remain unbiased, considerate, and professional when completing this worksheet. Part I Select three of the identity categories below and name or describe at least 3 related stereotypes for each: * Race * Ethnicity * Religion * Gender * Sexual orientation * Age * Disability Category | Stereotype 1 | Stereotype 2 | Stereotype 3 | race | African-American are good at dancing while Caucasians have no rhythm. | Hispanics are not very fluent with the English language. | Jews are greedy misers who refuse to part with the money they earn. | Sexual-orientation | Gays and Lesbians are not fit to raise a child. | Men who are feminine are gay. | Woman who are masculine are lesbians. | Gender | Woman can’t do as good of a job as a man. | Men are the “backbone.” | Guys are messy and unclean. | Part II Answer each question in 50 to 100 words related to those stereotypes. Provide citations for all the sources you use. What are the positive aspects of stereotypes, if any? The positive aspects of stereotyping can sometimes keep an individual in safety. Stereotyping in the positive aspect could be understood as the way in which people reduce the complexity of the world to a more manageable level. It helps protect our minds from the information overload. For this reason, we resort to simplified assumptions...
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...Prejudice Checkpoint Genna Lee psy/285 6/15/2014 Prejudice Checkpoint Prejudice comes from an unequal status and from other social sources including learned values and attitudes. Family has that largest impact of learning prejudice. Parents teach their children who and why they should or should not like or trust someone. Many other elements play a role in prejudices attitudes, society, emotions and cognitive processes all influence prejudice as well. Society confirms prejudicial attitudes in different ways. You have the authoritarian personality, religion, conformity and aggression. The authoritarian personality is that those who tend to hostility to a particular group usually shows the same hostility to all groups they see as different. Religion can play a role in prejudice as well because in almost every country leaders invoke religion in order to sanctify the current order of things (Exploring Social Psychology, ch.23, pg.259). An example of this is when the vote for gay and lesbian rights come into play be it adoption, marriage or tax equality you often hear the Bible verses of Leviticus spoken as an example of why it should not be accepted. Those verses are Leviticus 18:22 and 20:13, "You shall not lie with a male as with a woman; it is an abomination" (Leviticus ch.18 verse 22). The other scripture you often hear quoted is "If a man lies with another male as with a woman, both of them have committed an abomination; they shall surely be put to death; their...
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...------------------------------------------------- Associate Program Material Stereotypes and Prejudice Worksheet Please complete the following exercises, remembering that you are in an academic setting and should remain unbiased, considerate, and professional when completing this worksheet. Part I Select three of the identity categories below and name or describe at least 3 related stereotypes for each: * Race * Ethnicity * Religion * Gender * Sexual orientation * Age * Disability Category | Stereotype 1 | Stereotype 2 | Stereotype 3 | Race | All African Americans are criminals | All Mexicans are drug dealers. | All Arabs are Muslims | Sexual Orientation | All Men are more powerful | Women are not allow to be treated as equal as men | Men are better workers than women | Ethnicity | Africans are better at running | Blacks are better at basketball | Hispanics work for lower wages | Part II Answer each question in 50 to 100 words related to those stereotypes. Provide citations for all the sources you use. What are the positive aspects of stereotypes, if any? Stereotypes' are the human's method for quickly ordering men and ladies to evade peril in social order. It' is the fundamental learning with the human personality and has been around provided that we have known the presence of humanity. That is the exclusively useful effect of stereotypes only when it is use for safety. What are the negative aspects of...
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...Prejudice can be described as a word which is derived from the Latin word Prae Judicium meaning ‘to try in advance’ (Clawson et al: 1990). Prejudice happens when we pre-judge individuals on first encounter about their character or appeal. Most individuals who are prejudiced are usually rigid in their prejudices and their beliefs are unsubstantiated. Prejudice can create serious tension in an organization because it has the potential to strain interpersonal relationships in a workplace. People can practice prejudices in various forms. Some of the areas of potential prejudice could be gender, race, age, religion, sexual orientation, ethnicity and physical disabilities. Prejudices can be systematically dealt with in the workplace. I work for one of the United Nations (UN) agencies. The UN has noted and is mindful of potential prejudices that can exist in the workplace, especially that the workplace is made up of employees from various countries, backgrounds, ethnic groupings, varying religious beliefs (including atheists), sexual orientation, races and as an organization, The organisation has a very diverse workforce. This diversity has not been ignored. The UN has taken deliberate steps to introduce workplace policies that encourage tolerance amongst employees and in turn, tolerance in the communities in which we serve. The policies are part of the orientation package for every new employee who joins the UN. There are Executive Directives (EXDs) that are issued and reviewed...
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...UVA-OB-0381 PREJUDICE IN ORGANIZATIONS The problems faced by women and minorities create a serious malfunction in corporate operations. Minorities and women have yet to be accepted as full members of corporate formal and informal networks. Until they are, not only do they suffer but so does the corporation. The utilization of minorities and women in many, many cases toward corporate effectiveness and efficiency continues to be seriously hampered by behaviors in crucial interpersonal relationships that reflect racist and sexist attitudes. - John Fernandez1 Although many would like to believe otherwise, prejudiced attitudes continue to present problems for millions of people in our society. Prejudices result in counter productive behavior such as demeaning humor, verbal abuse, harassment, violence, and more subtly (given comparable performance) lower pay, slower or non-existent promotions, systematic exclusion from various gatherings, greater scrutiny, higher standards, and awkward social encounters. Many groups labor with these realities in the work place: women, racial minorities, older workers, foreign nationals, sexual preference, religious and ethnic groups, and the physically handicapped all feel the sting of social prejudice. Prejudice is a problem that touches all aspects of life, but it has only recently been addressed openly in the work place. Prejudice lingers despite the fact that noticeable shifts in the composition of our work force have taken...
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...Question 2: Prejudice can be hurtful and destructive. Discuss how you can personally reduce prejudice in your workplace – please provide an example. Prejudice has been defined by multiple authors in attempts to explore this dense subject. Oskamp (2000) states that prejudice is a consequence of perceiving others as different from oneself or one’s group. Fishbein (2002) defines prejudice as an unreasonable negative attitude toward others because of their membership in a particular group. However, Allport (1979) provides a more in depth definition; he explains that “the word prejudice, derived from the Latin noun praejudicium, has, like most words, undergone a change of meaning since classical times. There are three stages in the transformation. 1. To the ancients, praejudicium meant a precedent – a judgment based on previous decisions and experiences. 2. Later, the term, in English, acquired the meaning a judgment formed before due examination and consideration of the facts – a premature or hasty judgment. 3. Finally the term acquired also its present emotional flavor of favorableness or unfavorableness that accompanies such a prior and unsupported judgment.” (Allport. 1979, p.6) Duckitt (1994) identified several interventions that may possibly reduce prejudice under “appropriate circumstances”. He explained that “these interventions have typically involved action at one of the three levels identified – that is, social structure and intergroup relations, social influence,...
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