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Prejudice And Stereotypes: A Case Study

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Prejudice is another form of bias that is present within group dynamics. It is a baseless, unjustified attitude, usually negative attitude toward an individual based solely on the individual’s membership of a social group.
Common features of prejudice include negative feelings, stereotyped beliefs, and a tendency to discriminate against members of the group (Cherry, 2014). According to psychologist, Gordon Allport, prejudice and stereotypes emerge in part as a result of normal human thinking. In order to make sense of the world around us, it is important to sort information into mental categories. “The human mind must think with the aid of categories," Allport explained. "Once formed, categories are the basis for normal prejudgment. …show more content…

Additionally, being visually impaired walking with the assistance of a cane they may have a prejudged opinion of her based on their belief of those issues. As supported by Allport’s postulations, the psychology group might have formed categories for which the Chinese people and persons with disability fall into certain category that is ascribed to either a positive or negative prejudgement. These preconceptions are occurs whether or not there are facts present. Lenli may not be who they perceive her to be but the group may be unable to dismiss their existing categorical beliefs about Chinese or persons with disabilities in order to judge her …show more content…

Influence that cause individual to be racist etc. may come from peers, parents and group members. Conforming to social norms means people adopt the normal set of behaviours associated with a particular group or society. Conformity to social norms may offer an explanation for prejudice in some cases but at the same time, norms change over time, so this can only go some way towards explaining prejudice.
In a study of the effect of social norms on prejudice, Minard, 1952 studied the behaviour of black and white miners in a southern United States, both above and below ground. Results show that below ground where social norms are friendly behaviour towards work colleagues, 80 white miners were friendly toward black but above ground, where social norms are prejudice behaviour, this dropped to 20. It concludes that whether or not prejudice is shown depends on the social context within which behaviour takes place.
The psychology group might have it social norms of what is appropriate behaviour which includes prejudice against person of Chinese decent or even against people with disabilities. Therefore, they might act upon this preconceived notions Lenli might experience discrimination at the group

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