Factors Affecting Prejudice & Discrimination
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- Factors Affecting Prejudice & Discrimination
- Situational Factors
- Influences to be racist or sexist may come from parents, peers & group members
- Conforming to social norms means we adopt set of values held by particular group or society
- Attitudes learned by observation & intimidation (SLT) of their role models behaviour
- Akrami 2009
- Manipulated social norm on sexism questionnaire examining prejudice - stating discrimination of women was no longer a problem
- Control group had same questionnaire without the comment - found changed social norm & personality factors all linked to prejudice
- Personality Factors
- Adorno et al
- Prejudice is as a result of individual's personality type - piloted & developed questionnaire - F scale
- Authoritarian Personality
- Hostile to those of inferior status & obedient to those with high status, upholding traditional values, favoured own ethnic group
- Categorises people into 'us' & 'them' - seeing own group as superior most likely developed from strict & critical upbringing as they could never be hostile towards parents, therefore displace hostility onto weaker targets
- Adorno et al
- Prejudice is as a result of individual's personality type - piloted & developed questionnaire - F scale
- Authoritarian Personality
- Hostile to those of inferior status & obedient to those with high status, upholding traditional values, favoured own ethnic group
- Categorises people into 'us' & 'them' - seeing own group as superior most likely developed from strict & critical upbringing as they could never be hostile towards parents, therefore displace hostility onto weaker targets
- Adorno et al
- Argues deep-seated personality traits predisposed some to be highly sensitive to totalitarian & antidemocratic = prone to being highly prejudicial
- Totalitarian
- Intolerant of those with differing opinion
- Antidemocratic
- Against the decisions of the majority
- Totalitarian
- Social Dominance Orientation
- See world as hierarchy & want own group to be on top - more likely to be prejudiced to groups lower down
- Cohrs 2012
- Right wing authoritarian +vely correlates with prejudice & -vely with openness
- Adorno et al
- Cultural Factors
- Trandis
- Prejudice & discrimination more likely to be observed among collectivists than individualists
- Individualism
- Someone considered discrete, autonomous & respectful abide to lows, rules & regulations
- Collectivism
- Well-being & social harmony valued over individual interests - everyone is in a role or position in society - conflict with out groups expected
- Guidmond
- Countries promoting multi-culturalism or assimilation have lower levels of prejudice - e.g. Canada
- Trandis
- Situational Factors
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