Prejudice is a baseless and usually negative attitude toward members of a group including stereotypes, negative feelings and a tendency to discriminate against members of the group, involving negative prejudgments with the most well-known types of prejudice including racism, sexism, classicism, homophobia, nationalism, religious prejudice, ageism. For instance, in 2013 at Newcastle crown court a football fan was removed from the jury of a sex assault trial after confessing he couldn 't give someone from Sunderland a fair trial so soon after Paolo di Canio 's team beat Newcastle 3-0. The juror admitted his prejudice and was removed (H.Pidd. 2013).
Discrimination is the harmful act based on stereotypes and prejudices and could vary in forms like …show more content…
Consequently, someone can be prejudiced towards a certain group but not discriminate against them. Likewase, prejudice includes all three components of an attitude (affective, behavioural and cognitive), whereas discrimination just involves behaviour. An extreme example of prejudice and discrimination would be the Nazi’s mass murder of Jews in the WW2.
Researchers tend to use two main ways to measure discrimination by measuring the use of particular services (2011 Stonewall 's survey of sex-minorities less willing to use social and health services due to bad experience when research carried out by the Office of the Children’s Commissioner for England (2012) that teenagers have difficulties in accessing social care) and examining whether certain groups have different experiences leading to different outcomes (Bignall and Butt in 2000 discovered that young black people with disabilities felt they been treated ‘differently’ without clear reasons) (J.Moriarty. 2013).
When choices and decisions are made solely on the ground of gender, religion, ethnicity and nationality, sex or disability unlawful and unfair discrimination occur. It could be direct (resulting from prejudice or ignorance rather than facts or evidences), indirect (unintentionally disadvantaging some groups), lack of reasonable adjustment or disability related, harassment or
Discrimination is the harmful act based on stereotypes and prejudices and could vary in forms like …show more content…
Consequently, someone can be prejudiced towards a certain group but not discriminate against them. Likewase, prejudice includes all three components of an attitude (affective, behavioural and cognitive), whereas discrimination just involves behaviour. An extreme example of prejudice and discrimination would be the Nazi’s mass murder of Jews in the WW2.
Researchers tend to use two main ways to measure discrimination by measuring the use of particular services (2011 Stonewall 's survey of sex-minorities less willing to use social and health services due to bad experience when research carried out by the Office of the Children’s Commissioner for England (2012) that teenagers have difficulties in accessing social care) and examining whether certain groups have different experiences leading to different outcomes (Bignall and Butt in 2000 discovered that young black people with disabilities felt they been treated ‘differently’ without clear reasons) (J.Moriarty. 2013).
When choices and decisions are made solely on the ground of gender, religion, ethnicity and nationality, sex or disability unlawful and unfair discrimination occur. It could be direct (resulting from prejudice or ignorance rather than facts or evidences), indirect (unintentionally disadvantaging some groups), lack of reasonable adjustment or disability related, harassment or