SOC 003 Lecture Notes - Lecture 7: Stereotype Threat, Ingroups And Outgroups, The Human Instinct
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Throughout every society in the world, people often have a tendency to distinguishable group, and these attitudes are based solely upon their membership develop hostile or negative attitudes towards people in who (cid:498)belong(cid:499) to a in that group. This is a social phenomenon called (cid:498)prejudice. (cid:499) prejudice starts at a cognitive level where stereotypes are created. Based on society"s rules and perceived (cid:498)norms,(cid:499) people often learn to characterize and generalize others into groups and categories based on certain traits, and assign those traits to everybody within those groups, regardless of actual variations that may exist. Affectively, emotions make prejudice extremely difficult to change. This is because of the fact that most people will tend to be unresponsive to logical arguments concerning the prejudices they hold to be true. Emotional prejudices often even exist with a person despite knowing that the prejudices are wrong.
