Culture

• AO1


  • Culture is an influence as they may have social norms that legitimise prejudiced practice, has strict religious laws that allow prejudice to other groups. However social norms change, so hard to see whether one culture is particularly more prejudiced than another
• AO1


  • Individualist cultures encourage more interpersonal prejudice which is against people in their group, while collectivist more intergroup prejudice which is against other groups
  • Al zahrani and kaplowitz Saudis collectivist country more in groups favouritism and negative out group bias. Kleigal found that collectivist cultures is associated with greater tolerance and lower racism
• AO3:


  • Individualist cultures encourage more interpersonal prejudice which is against people in their group, while collectivist more intergroup prejudice which is against other groups
  • Al zahrani and kaplowitz Saudis collectivist country more in groups favouritism and negative out group bias. Kleigal found that collectivist cultures is associated with greater tolerance and lower racism
• AO3


  • Strength is that there's supporting evidence. Al zahrani and kaplowitz found that Saudis a collectivist country more in groups favouritism and negative out group bias. Kleigal found that collectivist cultures is associated with greater tolerance and lower racism. This shows that collectivist culture do show more intergroup prejudice
  • Weakness is it's reductionist as it considers nurture such as culture but not other nurture such as social norms or nature such as personality traits so oversimplifies the explanation of prejudice down to just one factor