Prejudice

• Prejudice 


  When you think of someone because of how they look and not their personality
• Ingroup and outgroup


  The separation of individuals. Into into = your group. Out group = everyone else.
• Social categorisation 


  The categories in which people fit into such as white, black, British or bus drivers. In order to understand them or identify them.
• Social Identification 


  Identifying the beliefs of a group and categorising ourselves as belonging to. We may also change our behaviour to fit into this group.
• Social comparison 


  Once we have categorised ourself as part of a group and and have identified with that group we then tend to compare that group with other groups.
• Self-esteem 


  How confident we feel about ourselves.
• Discrimination 


  Treating out-groups differently to how they should be treated.
• Realistic Conflict Theory


  Suggests group conflict, negative prejudices, and stereotypes are a result of competition between groups for desired resources
• zero-sums fate 


  only one group can be the winner
• Value and shortage 


  The length and severity of the conflict is based upon the perceived value and shortage of the given resource
• Superordinate goals


  According to the RTC, positive relations can only be restored if superordinate goals (a goal that can only be achieved by working together) are in place.
• Who proposed the Social Identity Theory?

  Tajfel