Prejudice And Socialization

Prejudice is an inexcusable attitude (usually harmful) towards an individual based solely on the individual’s membership of a social group. Victims of prejudice may have difficulty focusing on tasks and making clear decisions and this effect can linger after the incident. Psychotherapy may be helpful in treating the negative mental effects of someone who has been the victim of prejudice. Psychotherapy may also be beneficial for someone who has prejudged or discriminated against another. The socialization process is the process by which people follow the values and beliefs of their culture, including religion, nationality, and social class. One can agree that prejudices and other beliefs are instilled via socialization. Socialization

They will seek individuals who we can displace our aggression onto. These may be out-group individuals or even entire groups. Scapegoat theory emerged during the 1940s as a way for social psychologists to explain why prejudice occurs. According to this theory, people may be prejudice toward a group in order to emit their anger. One example, according to scapegoat theory, the Germans used the Jews as scapegoats for all of their countries problems (which included economic problems across the country). Once someone is classified as a scapegoat, it may be difficult to erase stigmas associated with it. Prejudice is created via socialization. The way we deal with life problems, most of the times, are displayed in our behaviors. Since humans are social creatures, it is easy to see that socialization is the simplest way to vent our anger; be it positively (example talking to a friend about a situation you are going through at home) or negatively (example scapegoat theory). Though our life issues may be internal, as humans we always vent our anger in external

According to Allport, because humans rely on one another for the information and resources they need to survive, we must be willing to trust and cooperate with one another. However, trust must be present at all times. Therefore, ingroups are formed in which members are compelled to respond to any support given or asked of them. Members expect the ingroup to treat them with kindness and fairness. As groups become larger, signs and symbols are created to differentiate ingroup members from outgroup members so that outgroup members don’t benefit from ingroup members. As power becomes more unconditional in the ingroup, they have low tolerance for outgroups, leading to hostility toward the outgroup (Brewer,