This essay will discuss the reasons as to why prejudice still continues to occur despite there being social sanctions against it. The essay supports this notion by first defining what prejudice is; the different categories of prejudice – and discussing two of these examples briefly; followed by explanations for prejudice, by discussing individual explanations, social explanations and finally the different social cognitive explanations as to why prejudice still exists.
The definition of prejudice is identified differently in a number of texts, but most have a similar meaning behind them, Abrams (2010) defines prejudice as “…bias which devalues people because of their perceived membership of a social group…” Although prejudice may not be perceived …show more content…
Although explicit racism – this being deliberate stereotypes or discriminatory abuse, is illegal in society today, racism has become harder to find, as people now express racism differently and more subtly. Subtle racism, or as it is also known as, ‘modern racism’ involves the indirect and unspoken negative evaluations of a person or group by someone else. In contrast to what use to be in society – being ‘old-fashioned’ racism, where racist remarks were made directly and explicitly in response to a person. Although old-fashioned racism is not around as much in society today, it was a major aspect which created outcry in the past. Examples of old-fashioned racism would be before the 1960s African-Americans and White Americans, were in segregated schools for education, but when that changed, there was outcry and huge negativity and racist attitudes towards these people. A similar example to this is of how the Vietnamese, in any country, were treated during the Vietnam War, with racial slurs and dehumanisation. The reason for these two examples being used is because the different discriminatory remarks are similar, and they resulted in the subtle misconceptions made of their race and how the people in those group were portrayed in media and
The definition of prejudice is identified differently in a number of texts, but most have a similar meaning behind them, Abrams (2010) defines prejudice as “…bias which devalues people because of their perceived membership of a social group…” Although prejudice may not be perceived …show more content…
Although explicit racism – this being deliberate stereotypes or discriminatory abuse, is illegal in society today, racism has become harder to find, as people now express racism differently and more subtly. Subtle racism, or as it is also known as, ‘modern racism’ involves the indirect and unspoken negative evaluations of a person or group by someone else. In contrast to what use to be in society – being ‘old-fashioned’ racism, where racist remarks were made directly and explicitly in response to a person. Although old-fashioned racism is not around as much in society today, it was a major aspect which created outcry in the past. Examples of old-fashioned racism would be before the 1960s African-Americans and White Americans, were in segregated schools for education, but when that changed, there was outcry and huge negativity and racist attitudes towards these people. A similar example to this is of how the Vietnamese, in any country, were treated during the Vietnam War, with racial slurs and dehumanisation. The reason for these two examples being used is because the different discriminatory remarks are similar, and they resulted in the subtle misconceptions made of their race and how the people in those group were portrayed in media and