Social Injustice/ Inequalities

Discrimination and Prejudice

- closely linked to discrimination leads to
prejudice.
(prejudice can either be positive or
negative)

• positive prejudice
• negative prejudice

prejudice is defined as a negative attitude.

- it is a prejudgement of others that allows
us to brand or label them in various
negative ways.

discrimination is an act while prejudice is an

attitude.

stereotyping refers to our tendency to picture

all members of a particular category as having
thr same qualities.

hasty generalization - a mistake of one is a

mistake of everyone.
Ethnocentrism is the belief of

Ethnic - identity is acquired, and ethnic

features are learned forms of behavior.

Scapegoating situation when people

encounter problems.

Racism it is a belief that one's own race is

superior and has the right to control or direct
others.
 Race - is a form of identity that's perceived
as innate and unalterable.

The racial worldview holds that, regardless

of behavior or cultural similarities, a member
of an inferior race can never be accepted.

Race is an invented fictional form of identity;

ethnicity is based on reality of cultural
similarities and differences and teh interests
that they represent.