Adults and children alike live in poor, crowded conditions and do backbreaking work in the hot sun, day after day after day. Since, in crisis and frustrating situations, beliefs and attitudes are more amenable to change this advantage should be utilized to change prejudice. Rigid discipline, harsh and dominant behaviour of parents lead to insecurity, feeling of deprivation and maladjustment in children which are conducive personality traits for the growth of prejudices. Prejudice is found to be greater among people with low status in society. The most interesting fact is that at this age level, they did not show any preference, prejudice or hostility. Few whites believe today that African Americans are biologically inferior, and few favor segregation. When, repeatedly, this is said and exposed, it is imprinted in one’s mind that these people are uncivilized, dirty and inferior. (2011). Baron and Byrne (1988) have put on record some specific determinants causes of prejudices. Criminology, 48, 99–129. Studies of these changes focus on whites’ perceptions of African Americans. Each and every culture has got certain beliefs, attitudes, stereotypes and prejudices regarding other groups. Results of various studies do provide evidences that our basic tendency is to divide the social world into two camps ‘us’ and ‘them’. Gilens, M. (1996). You have heard and believed a particular nation is war minded. When this aggression is directed against a group as the target, it turns to prejudice. Timeframes. Among them stereotypes, illusory correlation and the illusion of outgroup homogeneity are noteworthy. Landale, N. S., McHale, S., & Booth, A. Studies like these show that the news media “convey the message that black people are violent, lazy, and less civic minded” (Jackson, 1997, p. A27). Evidence for this modern form of prejudice is seen in Figure 3.3 “Attribution by Non-Latino Whites of Blacks’ Low Socioeconomic Status to Blacks’ Low Innate Intelligence and to Their Lack of Motivation to Improve”, which presents whites’ responses to two General Social Survey (GSS) questions that asked, respectively, whether African Americans’ low socioeconomic status is due to their lower “in-born ability to learn” or to their lack of “motivation and will power to pull themselves up out of poverty.” While only 8.5 percent of whites attributed blacks’ status to lower innate intelligence (reflecting the decline of Jim Crow racism), about 48 percent attributed it to their lack of motivation and willpower. Retrieved from http://sda.berkeley.edu/cgi-bin/hsda?harcsda+gss10. Persons try to elevate their self esteem by becoming identified with specific social groups. When forming personal convictions, we often interpret factual evidence through the filter of our values, feelings, tastes, and past experiences. Some Indian Studies on Prejudice: Essay # 6. This is obvious from the Hindu, Muslim conflicts, riots, Christian and nonchristian feeling, lower and higher caste feeling, and the exploitation of the poor class by the rich. (4) Investigations and adjustment relating to intergroup differences and to reward intergroup understanding and harmony is desirable. Prejudice can have a strong influence on how people behave and interact with others, particularly with those who are different from them, even unconsciously or without the person realizing they are under the influence of their internalized prejudices. (ii) Prejudices scale measuring religious, caste and sex prejudices developed by A.K. Rokeach (1960) attempted to explain, prejudice on the basis of individual difference in the ways of organising belief and disbelief system. He found that compared to Christian subjects, the non- christians attributed more unfavourable and less favourable adjectives to Indian Christians. Tajfal and Turner (1979) support the above facts. (1) Through information, education and propaganda integration is required from the school level and to educate the mind of people and bring consciousness to reduce prejudice. From three major psychological theories of prejudice, such as frustration, aggression, authoritarian, personality and belief congruence the effect of personality variable on prejudice is obvious. Journal of Abnormal and Social Psychology, 64, 33–38. The social animal (10th ed.). It is the root of cold war, jealousy, quarrel among persons, societies and nations. Further, psychological insight of parents should be increased for psychological therapy. Sears, D. O. The time was, therefore, ripe to study the development of prejudice in children from the psychological, social and cultural stand. Laissez-faire racism: The crystallization of a kinder, gentler, antiblack ideology. By teaching people to understand others and like them through direct educational techniques prejudice can be reduced. Dollard, J., Doob, L. W., Miller, N. E., Mowrer, O. H., & Sears, R. R. (1939). Race and poverty in America: Public misperceptions and the American news media. Quillian, L. (2006). (ii) High Caste boys show greater sex prejudice than high caste girls (significant at .05 level). Studies by Hemstone, Locksley, Jaspars (1982), Ortiz and Hepburn (1980). Hence, steps should be taken from the early stage of growth to prevent the development of prejudice as far as practicable. When certain minority or disadvantaged groups are provided with the advantage of reservation in admission to educational institution; in jobs and in various elections to political system, the unreserved category develop prejudice towards these groups. Prejudices indicate unscientific, unfounded judgement and assume that they possess certain traits and take it for granted. For example, whites who hold racial stereotypes are more likely to oppose government programs for African Americans (Quillian, 2006). All these discussions and studies on the determinants and causes of prejudice lead to one basic truth that the underlying factors of prejudice are multidimensional and large number of factors operate in the development of prejudice. At the Sherwood school, according to a news report, many students “sleep beneath carports and live in such cramped quarters that their parents take them to the local truck stop to wash up before school.” A local high school teacher said many of his students see little of their parents, who spend most of their waking hours working in the fields. But Bird and his associates found low correlation between the attitudes of parents and children towards Negroes. Here historical attitude influences this discrimination. Prejudice and racism both refer to a negative view of one group of people based solely on their membership in that group. It may be felt or expressed. It is, thus, obvious that as children grow, they are exposed to certain experiences and training at home and society. Media, crime, and criminal justice: Images, realities, and policies (4th ed.). Gender Prejudice Sexism: Benevolent and Hostile Attitudes toward women have changed rapidly Most see women as understanding, kind, and helpful (“women-are-wonderful effect”) Gender Discrimination Disappearing in democratic Western countries, but lives on in subtle forms Non-Western countries gender bias is still strong 9 10. (a) The support to the frustration-aggression hypothesis of prejudice comes from the studies showing that more prejudiced individuals have greater tendency to displace hostility than unprejudiced individuals. Prejudice is a disease of the society persisting from age to age. It means expectations about the possibility of further events or behaviours that act to increase the likelihood that the event or behaviour will occur. Gender, cultural, sexual orientation, and ethnic diversity can improve creativity and group performance, facilitate new ways of looking at problems, and allow multiple viewpoints on decisions (Cunningham, 2011; Mannix & Ne… Venkatasubramanyu (1967) using a self rating scale tried to reduce prejudice towards the Hindi language of the Northerners and the Brahmin caste of the South Indian College students. Itinerant life weighs on farmworkers’ children. Panchabhra (1966) collected data from 150 Adivasi undergraduates belonging to Santhal, Oraon and Munda tribes of Chotta Nagpur, Bihar. High caste and low caste boys do not show significant difference in any category of prejudice considered for the present study. The famous study conducted by Clark and Clark on Negro children of 3 to 7 years age suggest that even at the age of 3 years children are perceptually able to discriminate the white child from the black child. Mohanty (1980) made an attempt to find out whether children of different groups formed on the basis of caste, religion and sex differ or not in caste, religious and sex prejudices. But only a fewer studies have been done on children. 105 Hindu boys, 114 Hindu girls, 131 Muslim boys and 101 Muslim girls of class X and XI of high and low castes selected by stratified random sampling technique from different schools of Cuttack city constitute the sample of the study. The persons involved must view one another as typical of their respective groups. Privacy Policy3. 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