SOC 1005 Chapter Notes - Chapter 9: Louis Wirth, Cauterization, California Proposition 209
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If your group is relatively small, has little power, looks different from most people in society, and is an object of discrimination, you will have a heightened sense of ethnic identity. In contrast, if you belong to the dominant group that holds most of the power, look like most people in the society, and feel no discrimination, you are likely. Individual discrimination: the negative treatment of one person by another. Theories of prejudice: psychological perspectives, scapegoat: an individual or group unfairly blamed for someone else"s troubles. It is possible to arrange the social environment to generate either positive or negative feelings about people. i. Prejudice arises if we pit groups against one another in an i win, you lose situation: prejudice creates in-group solidarity, it also destroys human relationships. Rather higher the: labels create selective perception: they lead us to see certain things one with nice curves. while they blind us to others.
