Prejudice

& Discrimination
OCN Level 2
Booklet 3

Name: Adam McIntyre

Group: Our City, Our Story
Date: 21/05/20

AC 3.1 Examine how attitudes are formed (please provide three examples).

Example 1 attitude:

Learning / Education (Influence from the education system)

How the above may be formed?

Forming an attitude is heavily based on your education and what you are exposed to, by
learning. The education system teaches what is acceptable, and getting praise for it, and
what isn’t, and learning from the mistake…this leads to students understanding and
being able to properly form an attitude which benefits society. There are many different
schemes students can partake in that also offer a broader understanding that are
offered at school, for example Churches Trust having my class complete the ‘Our City
Our Story.’ In doing this course, it is teaching me a wider range of knowledge not
normally offered, which is further allowing me to develop an attitude (positive) towards
the world around me.

Example 2 attitude:
 Family / Peer (Influence from the people around you)

How the above may be formed?

Forming an attitude is heavily based on who you surround yourself with. For most
people, their main attitudes will be formed based on the opinions of their own family
members. This is also the case for friend groups. Someone will be greatly impacted by
how their friends react and act in certain situations, and take that and develop their
own attitude about specific situations. If the influence from the group around you is
positive, then you will be rewarded when having a good attitude, and corrected when
having a bad attitude.

Example 3 attitude:

Direct Experience

How the above may be formed?

Direct experience forms an attitude very quickly. It allows an individual to be put in a

certain situation and think on their feet, whether they have to act in that moment…or
just have to form an observation. This is behaviour that is taught from family
members / peer groups. If a child is taught to respect elderly people and offer seats for
them, and prioritise them in society, then when put in that situation they will know how
to act. Normally, the child will experience praise from doing this, and associates doing
good, with getting praise, then forms that into an attitude.

AC 3.2 Describe THREE ways in which attitudes may be CHALLENGED.

Challenge attitude 1:

Attitudes are challenged by police systems, who constantly devote a lot of time to
advocating around schools and colleges, talking about how we have to treat everyone
equal and with respect, and how any discriminative behaviour (hate crime) is NOT okay,
and will be dealt with. Communities can feel safe reporting negative behaviour, as they
have this support when coming forward, which challenges it. They also spend a lot of
money on promotional videos for their websites and social medias, that discuss what to
do if you experience discriminative behaviour towards you, or see it done to someone
else. This allows the community to feel protected and safe. An individual who is seeing
the police services go to extreme measures to protect their community and let them
know what behaviour is not acceptable will take that and think next time they have a
negative attitude towards something.

Challenge attitude 2:

Attitudes are challenged by the education system also. Education is one of the main
ways most people will learn about a wide range of things, and take this and create an
attitude, and learn what is treated positively and negatively. Students will be taught
that discriminative behaviour is not okay and take that and apply it to their own lives
and how they act, which challenges their pre-existing attitudes.

Challenge attitude 3:

Professional work places will also challenge attitudes, and devote many days a year to
having courses that their employees will be made to take part in, that shows them what
kind of attitudes are acceptable and what are not. This further pushes them to
understand how to act, and live their life. They will also have many policies that will
challenge negative attitudes.
AC 4.1 Describe THREE ways in which prejudice may manifest itself (provide THREE
examples).

Manifestation of prejudice:
Type of prejudice 1?

Disability

Manifestation……

Prejudice may manifest itself against disabilities by exclusion, for example, in the
playground leaving a disabled individual out of games due to their difference, or not
including them presuming that they are less than you.

Manifestation of prejudice:
Type of prejudice 2?

Gender

Manifestation……

Prejudice may manifest itself against gender by treating women as inferior, for
example, in the workplace if a woman gets paid less than a man who is doing the same
job, and working equally hard.

The #MeToo movement was created by women joining forces to come together to discuss
the unfair power imbalance in the entertainment business, and events that happened due
to this and I have created a social action on the topic in which I spent many weeks
researching and organising.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OV5FEYmyS_Y

Manifestation of prejudice:
Type of prejudice 3?

Sexuality

Manifestation……

Prejudice may manifest itself against sexuality by treating anyone who is lgbtq+ as
inferior or thinking they are stereotypically the traits wrongly associated with them,
whenever we are all equal, no matter who we love.
AC 4.2 Describe positive and negative consequences of THREE types of prejudice and
discrimination.

Prejudice/discrimination 1:

Thinking women are bad drivers.

Positive consequences:

It’ll make women feel more confident and powerful knowing how good they are at
driving and how they’ve broken the ‘mould.’

Insurance policies are cheaper for women because they are proven to be in less car
accidents as they are more careful on the road.

Negative consequences:

Lots of women don’t get chosen, or aren’t prioritised when it comes to employers
looking for people to hire for a driving job.

It puts a negative association and thought in a woman’s mind before she even gets into
the car.
Prejudice/discrimination 2:

All fat people are lazy.

Positive consequences:

It allows fit overweight people to feel good about themselves as they have broken that
‘mould.’

Negative consequences:

It can put overweight people off the idea of going to the gym and working out, as they
are scared of being judged for their weight.

A lot of overweight people are not like that through choice, but due to medical
conditions, and cannot change it, or can’t easily.
Prejudice/discrimination 3:

Single mothers cannot do as good a job as two parents.

Positive consequences:

It gives single mothers confidence after they know how good of a job they are doing,
and how well their child has turned out.

It fuels an inner determination within the mother to work hard to continue to prove
society wrong.

Negative consequences:

It makes single mothers feel stigmatised.

It makes the single mothers feel they are failing their children.
AC 4.3 Describe how discrimination can lead to disadvantage.

Discrimination may lead to disadvantage by:

Discrimination may lead to disadvantage for example, a person with learning disabilities
can be overlooked when applying for jobs. Employers wrongly assume that the person
will be incapable of doing the job in hand. Or, if they get the job, and the workplace
doesn’t have the facilities available to accommodate them, leaving them frustrated and
defeated. Another example is a woman being treated differently than male colleagues
in a workplace, this is reflected in the salary pay to both, and men thinking they are
more powerful and doing the job at hand better. A final example is a person in power in
a workplace or school setting taking advantage of the fact an individual is lgbtq+ and
uses this as a reason to belittle, or humiliate them.

Learner Signature: Date: 22/05/20

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