Prejudice In Today's Society

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Before discrimination comes prejudice, but what do these two words really entail? Prejudice is a negative attitude held towards members of a group and discrimination is the unjust or prejudicial treatment of different categories of people, especially on the grounds of race, age, or sex. Discrimination. (2017). Oxford Dictionary. Retrieved on October 2, 2017 from the World Wide Web: https://en.oxforddictionaries.com/definition/discrimination. In today’s society there are many more than these three types of discrimination; other forms include disability, equal pay/ compensation, harassment, sexual harassment, skin color, religion, and national origin just to name a few. In 1954, Gordon Allport, articulated five steps in which people behave negatively towards people of a different ethnic group, this is known as explicit bias. Explicit bias refers to the attitudes we have about a person or group on a conscious level. These five steps go as follows: verbal antagonism, avoidance, segregation, physical attack, and extermination. National Research Council. (2004). Measuring Racial Discrimination. Retrieved from https://www.nap.edu/read/10887/chapter/7. …show more content…

Avoidance entails choosing to not interact with another racial group besides your own. Segregation occurs when people exclude members of a different racial group from different resources. Physical attacks happen when a member of one racial group attacks a member of a different racial group out of dislike and/ or hatred and extermination is the elimination of a person or group of a different racial group. On the other hand there is implicit bias; implicit bias is when we have attitude towards people or associate stereotypes with them without our conscious

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