ipl-logo

Group Identification Theory Of Prejudice

929 Words4 Pages

The terms prejudice and stereotypes are often being mixed up with, due to them having the similar characteristic of preconceived ideas towards a target group, however, they are thoroughly different concepts. Brinkerhoff et al defined prejudice as having biased thoughts towards a targeted group of people, racism and discrimination are forms of prejudice(192). Stereotypes, on the other hand, may or may include negative attitude towards the targeted group. Despite them being as quite different concepts, there are casual connections between the two, since prejudice is actually the negative outcome of stereotypes(192). The cause of prejudice can scholars into four categories: cultural transmission, group identification theory, personality theories and frustration-aggression hypothesis(class notes). I will define and discuss three of the above approaches, and by providing proofs and examples I would explain that the Group Identification Theory best explains discriminatory behaviors.

The cultural transmission theory refers to prejudice that is transferred from generation to generation by various mediums. Prejudice is …show more content…

This theory provides some insight to why people tries to shift the blame to others, also know as scapegoating(Whitley and Kite). In this theory, prejudice is not the only outcome from frustration, in fact, frustration can also be the cause of violence(Nielsen), which is much worse outcome comparing to prejudice. After the defeat in world war one, the Germans were further disgraced by the Versailles Treaty, unable to avenge and out of frustration, the germans directed their hate towards the Jews(Nielsen), resulting in the occurrence of the holocaust, a tragic outcome by the combination of both prejudice and

Show More
Related
380 Words | 2 Pages

African Americans in particular are victims of automatic prejudice the most. I think this was the case in Tamir’s case. As the text states, automatic, implicit prejudice can have life or death consequences in some situations (Myers, 2015, p. 249). In Payne’s study, a gun was quickly recognized and tools were mistaken for guns when associated with African American faces (Myers, 2015, p. 249).

Read More
1564 Words | 7 Pages

Stereotypes rampant in today’s society. They are implanted in one’s mind from a young age and learnt from school, media, friends or family. Moreover, the unique qualities of a person which can be beneficial for society can be hidden due to stereotypes. As a result, society can undermine a person by judging that judging that person based on the general idea it has about that person’s age, race, personality and/or financial status. Consequently, stereotypes have been a common topic that many authors have used in their books, with one such book being John Ball’s

Read More
561 Words | 3 Pages

Spread of negative stereotypes Negative stereotypes have been created by us, as a society, we have allowed ourselves to live with this misconceptions that impact all of us in a certain way. We have contributed to those beliefs that say that social status, income class and ethnicity define our identity. In fact, we have been and also have prejudged others at a certain point in our lives, we prejudge people we don’t know and also the ones we think we know like our own family members. In “The Achievement of Desire” by Richard Rodriguez he discusses his personal experience on how he stereotyped himself and also his family.

Read More
598 Words | 3 Pages

This article relates to these concepts in Chapter 9 of the textbook: stereotype and prejudice. Stereotype:

Read More
692 Words | 3 Pages

Prejudice is still a problem in today's society. People still judge one another based on things like race, ethnicity, social status, wealth, and even age. It is common in today’s world for people in older generations to have opinions on the younger generations without knowing who they are. People continue to make preconceived opinions of other people without knowing who

Read More
1291 Words | 6 Pages

"Deconstructing the Pyramid of Prejudice." Phi Delta Kappan, vol. 95, no. 6, 2014, p. 20. General Reference Center, http://link.galegroup.com/apps/doc/A367421204/GPS?u=lausdnet&sid=GPS&xid=767d10e8. Accessed 30 Jan. 2018. Thomson, Hugh.

Read More
917 Words | 4 Pages

One would think prejudice is a thing of the past. Unfortunately, that is not the case, prejudice is still a common factor in todays society. Vincent N. Parrillo’s essay “Causes of Prejudice,” helped me to understand how we are affected not just psychologically but in a sociological way as well, as John A. Camacho explains in his A Few Bad Apples opinion piece published in the Pacific Daily News. Both forms of prejudice are continued to be explained through Stud Turkel’s “C.P Ellis,” he gives us an understanding of psychological and sociological prejudice through C.P Ellis’own experiences. This furthers our understanding on how we can be affected by both psychological and sociological prejudices.

Read More
1954 Words | 8 Pages

In today’s society, individuals and groups are labeled with either positive or negative stereotypes. People encounter stereotypes everyday and everywhere. It is the picture people paint in their minds when approaching a group or individual when in fact it may be different in reality. Stereotypes affect a person’s way of living and thinking either in a negative or positive way. Stereotypes are based on truth but in an exaggerated way, while misconceptions are formed from having stereotypes.

Read More
824 Words | 4 Pages

Prejudice is being explored in this short video. Prejudice can classified upon specific number of factors including sex, race, age, sexual introductions, nationality, financial status and religion. This video particularly portray about racism. Firstly, prejudice is described as a baseless and generally negative impact toward individuals from a group. Common features of prejudice include negative feelings, stereotyped beliefs, and a tendency to discriminate against members of the group.

Read More
3122 Words | 13 Pages

Prejudice is an unwarranted and usually negative attitude toward a group (Brewer, 1999), stereotyping, a collection of ideas someone has about another individual or group that influences how they interact with them, can lead to prejudice (Feldman,1972). This also stems from ethnocentrism, which is the belief that one’s own culture is better than another’s’ (Brewer & Campbell, 1976), and the acting on one’s prejudice, is discrimination towards another group. Within discrimination people may act out with two types of aggressive behaviors: instrumental aggression, which is directed to secure some purpose or particular end, or hostile aggression, which has no clear

Read More
1162 Words | 5 Pages

As per Steele and Aronson’s study conducted in 1995, it was introduced that a stereotype threat is the ideology of being at risk of negative conformant and characterisation based on ones self and/or social group. The phenomenon of a stereotype threats is widely incorporated into society in order to influence or impact an outcome and/ or performance. A stereotype threat can play a positive or a negative role in the standard intellectual and cognitive assessments of a group. However, these stereotypical threats predominantly carry negative connotations that allow individuals of a group to conform to the negative stereotypes associated with their self or social group.

Read More
2116 Words | 9 Pages

The three psychological theories which are used to explain the causes of prejudice and discrimination will be evaluated and outlined in this essay. Prejudice is a negative feeling directed at members of a group just because they are part of the group. Discrimination can be seen as the behavioural expression of prejudice i.e. the behaviour or negative actions, directed at members of other group, mainly based on their sex, ethnicity, age or social class. The mass murder of Jews by the Nazi’s in the Second World War is an example of prejudice and discrimination. Prejudice comprises of affection, behaviour and cognition of an individual, whereas discrimination only involves the behaviour.

Read More
2225 Words | 9 Pages

It will talk about the development of the theory, definition and examples of the scapegoat theory. Scapegoat Theory was first introduced in the 1940s when social psychologists tried to explain why aggression or frustration are expressed in the form of prejudice toward others who are not the cause of the frustration (Echabe, 1997). In this time, prejudice was seen by psychologists as being rooted in psychology as the result of human’s defense mechanisms used to solve internal conflicts. A great historical example to explain this is the witch hunt. Witch Hunt was widely held all around the world in between the fifteenth century until the eighteenth century especially in Early Modern Europe and Colonial North America.

Read More
170 Words | 1 Pages

As described by Society: The Basics, the four theories of prejudice include: the scapegoat theory, authoritarian personality theory, culture theory, and the conflict theory. The scapegoat theory claims prejudice is rooted in the frustration from those who are disadvantaged. People use prejudice to express their anger and frustration. With the authoritarian personality theory, it is theorized that being prejudice is a part of individual personality traits. This is theorized due to research that demonstrates if a person is prejudice towards one minority, they are prejudice to all minorities.

Read More
1758 Words | 8 Pages

Allport theorised that there were five methods in which discrimination can occur (Allport, Clark, & Pettigrew, 1979b). These include verbal discrimination, avoidance, and denial of service or withholding service, physical assault, and extermination. Gordon Allport’s, the nature of prejudice, defined the field of intergroup associations for social psychologists as the study of prejudice and its effects on group interactions. He brought the subject of ethnic stereotyping to the fore in behavioural science by treating this phenomenon as regular cognitive functioning. The cognitive approach is now the most dominant academic perspectives in research on prejudice and discrimination.

Read More

More about Group Identification Theory Of Prejudice

Related Topics

Open Document