Minimizing Prejudice (Social Psychology)

Running Head : SOCIAL PSYCHOLOGY

Minimizing Prejudice

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Social Discrimination

A modern prejudice that has the potential to cause widespread harm is the social discrimination against Blacks . Social discrimination against Blacks has been shown to exist in virtually every major public walk of life , including the restaurant industry , housing rentals and sales automotive sales , higher education , job hiring systems , the criminal justice system , and the health care system (Sidanius Pratto , 1999 Yinger , 1995 . From the target 's perspective , one overarching message from researches

is that if the perpetrators are able to hide , or are unknowingly influenced by their biases , discrimination will be hard to detect or prove . The individual who is not helped , left out of the club not shown homes in a particular neighborhood , or fired from work is unlikely to know for certain that race played a role in their fates . As noted , such discrimination can be contrasted with Jim Crow-era racial discrimination , when targets of discrimination usually knew , with consensual certainty , that their race was a significant factor in their day-to-day relational and material outcomes

This distinction between these two types of prejudice is central to the present

approach . Although confirmed prejudice , such as racist epithets explicit discrimination

or otherwise public group-based hostility , connotes social conflict and unpleasantness , it

also carries with it the benefit of social clarity and an unambiguous social experience

with other observers (real or imagined . That is , because blatantly prejudicial , racist behavior is so socially objectionable , people can judge...