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Understanding Prejudice: Origins, Functions, and Strategies for Reducing Conflict

This chapter explores the concept of prejudice as a negative stereotype and unreasonable dislike towards specific groups. It delves into the psychological, social, and economic functions of prejudice, revealing how it can help individuals cope with fears and feelings of inadequacy. The text discusses how prejudice often arises from groupthink and societal pressures, serving to bond individuals to their own ethnic or national group. To reduce conflict and prejudice, it emphasizes the importance of equal opportunities, cooperation, and community support for all groups involved.

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Understanding Prejudice: Origins, Functions, and Strategies for Reducing Conflict

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  1. Section 5: Group Conflict Chapter 10

  2. Prejudice consists of a negative stereotype & a strong, unreasonable dislike or hatred of a group • Often remain immune to evidence

  3. The Origin of Prejudice • Psychological Functions • Serves to ward off feelings of doubt & fear • Allows people to use the target group as a scapegoat • People puff up their own feelings of low self worth by disliking or hating groups they see as inferior

  4. Social & Cultural Functions • Some are acquired through groupthink & other social pressures to conform to the views of friends, relatives, or associates • Serves cultural purposes- bonding people to their own ethnic & national group & its ways • By disliking “them” we feel closer to others who are like “us”

  5. Economic Functions • Makes official forms of discrimination seem legitimate by justifying the majority groups’ dominance, status, or greater wealth • “minorities are inferior, irrational, & incompetent”

  6. Prejudice is a result of conflict • When two groups are in direct competition • Jobs

  7. Reducing Conflict & Prejudice • Groups must have equal legal status, economic opportunities, and power. • Authorities and community institutions must endorse egalitarian norms and provide moral support & legitimacy for both sides.

  8. Both sides must have opportunities to work and socialize together, formally & informally. • Both sides must cooperate, working together for a common goal.

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