Prejudice
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 7078869 |
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| Authors | Laura Jennings (0000-0002-4624-4372, University of South Carolina Upstate, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2015 |
| Pages | 1-4 |
| Publication date | 2015-10-26 |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | OTHER |
| Venue | The Blackwell Encyclopedia of Sociology (JOURNAL) |
| Publisher | Wiley (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1002/9781405165518.wbeosp089.pub2 |
| OpenAlex | W4245876363 |
| ISBN | 9781405165518 |
| Language | EN |
| References cited | 1 |
Prejudice is a judgment formed about someone or something on the basis of perceived group membership. Prejudice can be negative, as in the case of racist or sexist ideology, or positive, as in the case of preference for a particular ethnic food, and can thus either help or harm a person so judged. Some writers, in defining prejudice, stress an irrational component; others maintain that it is incorrect to do so, because prejudice is often rooted in a quite rational self‐ or group interest. Others still point out that prejudice requires a positive bias toward one's own group in order for one to define another group negatively, through opposition; sometimes this bias is used to deny one's own prejudice even as one is acting on it
Ethnic group · Harm · Ideology · Irrational number · Opposition (politics · Political science · Politics · Prejudice (legal term · Culinary Culture and Tourism · Law · Mathematics · Psychology · Social Psychology
| Highly cited | No |
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