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Prejudice and Discrimination
•Prejudice
•Stereotypes
•Discrimination (Individual)
•Institutional Prejudice or Discrimination
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Prejudice
• Prejudice may refer to beliefs that are not
substantiated by an actual knowledge of the facts.
-Prejudging, usually in a negative way.
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•Stereotypes
•broad generalizations about a group of
people who are assumed to have
positive and negative traits common
to every single member of that
category.
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Discrimination (Individual)
• A common type of discrimination is the exclusion or
restriction of members of one group from opportunities
that are available to another group.
• Racial, religious, and gender discrimination are common types of
this phenomenon.
• Reverse discrimination is a term referring to discrimination against
members of a dominant or majority group, including the city or state,
or in favor of members of a minority or historically disadvantaged
group.
An Example of Discrimination
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Institutional Prejudice or Discrimination
• Negative treatment of a minority group that is built
into society’s institutions
• governments,
• religion, education and marriage.
• Usually institutional bias targets specific, easily stereotyped and
generalizable attributes of individuals, such as race and gender.
Trends in reading scores divided by race.
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• Examples:
• The achievement gap in education is an example of institutionalized
discrimination.
• Women can’t vote, attend school, or drive in many countries.
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An Example of Discrimination
An African-American child at a segregated drinking fountain on a courthouse lawn, North Carolina, 1938
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What is discrimination?
A) Biased actions against an individual or group
B) Biased thoughts against an individual or group
C) The belief that a race different from yours is inferior
D) Another word for stereotyping
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Race and Ethnicity
What is discrimination?
A) Biased actions against an individual or group
B) Biased thoughts against an individual or group
C) The belief that a race different from yours is inferior
D) Another word for stereotyping
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Institutionalized discrimination can happen everywhere EXCEPT:
A) government institutions.
B) religious institutions.
C) none of these answers.
D) the United States.
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Race and Ethnicity
Institutionalized discrimination can happen everywhere EXCEPT:
A) government institutions.
B) religious institutions.
C) none of these answers.
D) the United States.
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