In my high school sociology class, we defined prejudice as an attitude- prejudging of sorts, usually in a negative way and discrimination as an outgrowth of prejudice. In our book, the definition of prejudice is “a negative attitude toward an entire category of people, often an ethnic or racial minority” (Shaefer) and discriminations is “the denial of opportunities and equal rights to individuals and groups because of prejudice or other arbitrary reasons.” (Shaefer) AN example of prejudice would be if there was a couple of Hispanic Americans working as construction workers and their boss threatened to get his crew deported if they did not meet his quota. AN example of discrimination would be not hiring someone because their skin color or religious
