5. What causes Prejudice?
PSYCHOLOGY
WE:
• Categorize/stereotype for survival
• Want to be liked and will reject others if
necessary to gain acceptance
• Are protecting ourselves from admitting our own
inadequacies or problems - SCAPEGOATING
• Are trying to express the aspects of life that they
highly value
6. What causes Prejudice?
SOCIOLOGY
WE:
• Socialize our children
• Categorize people into
groups
• Have ‘in-group’ bias...
• Look for similarities within groups, differences between them
– Can lead to justification for actions
7. What causes Prejudice?
SOCIOLOGY
WE:
• Have expectations
and distortions
• Blame the Victims
• Create Self-Fulfilling
Prophecies
9. What causes Prejudice?
ANTHRPOLOGY
• Review specific types of Prejudice and
Discrimination over time and between
different cultures
• Each situation will have some unique factors
that helped cause the prejudice in some way