This means that people are treated unfairly or are disadvantaged because they are assigned to a certain category that is not preferred. Discrimination cannot only be carried out through actions but also verbally, through written and spoken language. Thus the act of discriminating plays a very important role on the pragmatic level of a language (sentence meaning and speaker's meaning) its effects having even more importance on the socio-cultural level. In this paper I will look at the different kinds of discrimination through language and their effects. I will also try to examine in what ways people discriminate others and how such discrimination is carried out linguistically.
In “Causes of Prejudice,” Parrillo would like his audience to see that knowing the differences between the social and psychological perspectives will give a deeper understanding of inter-group relations and the rise of prejudice. These differences branch out into several categories that encapsulate an individual and may or may not be just cause for this insidious behavior towards a group or an individual. The psychological path is noted as being on four levels within an individual’s mien: prejudice, self-justification, personality, and frustration. The sociological approach is geared towards exploring behavior from within a group setting as opposed to an individual’s specific demeanor. His examples prove that there is more than one cause for prejudice and that we must take all of these into account to fully understand how prejudice can come about.
Discuss the factors that contribute to prejudice and discrimination and identify some techniques for reducing the development of prejudice and discrimination. Prejudice and discrimination have been prevalent throughout human history. Prejudice has to do with a negative attitude held by a person about members of a particular group, while discrimination refers to behaviors directed differently against people because of prejudice toward the social group they belong to. Prejudice is the attitude and discrimination is the behavior that can result from the attitude. Discrimination can be controlled by laws, but the prejudicial attitude can’t be easily controlled.
The Concept of Social Bias Selina King PSYCH/555 Social Psychology February 6, 2012 Diana Dobier The Concept of Social Bias Social bias is an individual’s prejudice attitude towards people of a specific group, based on a person’s race, gender and even religious affiliation. This paper will explore the concepts of stereotyping a person, prejudice and discriminatory behavior. There are subtle and blatant biases which the differences between the two will be explained. Social bias towards another person can have a strong impact on their lives which will be described in this paper Define Concepts of Prejudice, Stereotyping and Discrimination There are some individuals who believe bias behaviors no longer exist in today’s society, it’s no longer a problem, while others strongly believe social bias towards a specific group or person is a current problem that can be dangerous. Some individuals choose not to discuss bias behaviors for fear their opinion on the matter will be taken out of context or they may have to listen to the same dialogue over and over again.
Dawn Chirichella-Besemer and Robert W. Motta theorized that there is a relationship between psychological maltreatment and Post Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD). The authors explain their difficulty in defining psychological maltreatment. They found multiple operational definitions but ultimately they decided the definition by Garbarino, Gutterman, and Seeley (1986) to be the best choice. Garbarino et al. describes psychological maltreatment as “rejecting, terrorizing, isolating, ignoring, and corrupting” (1986).
Psychopathy: Diagnosis, Theory, and Treatment Jama R. Young College of Saint Mary Psychopathy: Diagnosis, Theory, and Treatment What is a Psychopath? Psychopathy is a disorder, which is defined and “characterized in part by a diminished capacity for remorse and poor behavioral controls” (Blair, 2003, p. 5). Defining psychopathy gives shape to meaning behind the mental illness, but what does this mean? Those with the disorder are “ruthless social predators” (Cavadino, 1998, p .5). Persistently irresponsible, they are impulsive violators of what are considered social norms.
Although each of these explanations has merit, genetic explanations have been criticised for its failure to clearly show how disparate behaviours can be seen as expressions of a single genotype and that existing evidence suggests there are more complex issues involved than is implied by a person’s genetic makeup (Renken et al, 1989). As a result, behaviourism became one of the leading areas of research into learning during the twentieth century (Anderson 2000). It outlines factors such as classical conditioning; an association between a stimulus and response, operant conditioning; a response to the consequences of behaviour and social learning; a response to observation and imitation. The aim of this essay is to give an explanation of the social learning theory, its account of the development of offending behaviour and its usefulness. Social learning theory suggests that offending behaviour is acquired through direct reinforcement, modelling or imitation.
Tara L. Davis 6-30-2013 PHI 103 Informal Logic Instructor: Seitu Stephens Stereotyping Paper Discuss three stereotypes you encounter in your own life and the effect those stereotypes can have on others. This can be a stereotype you realize you have been guilty of holding or someone else's. Explain (a) what the stereotype is and (b) what sort of argument, no matter how flawed, might be used to support it, and (c) identify any mistakes you find in that argument. What is Stereotype? Stereotype is widely held but fixed and oversimplified image or idea of a particular type of person or thing.
In most cases we tend to feel unworthy, ashamed, or embarrassed with our actions which ties it to what is right and what is wrong, morality and immorality. Shame is determined by who that person is and guilt is defined by what that person does. Nevertheless both shame and guilt makes a connection to the perception of how we see ourselves and our behaviors towards other people, especially during conflict. These have to be understood because Jane Tangney argues against the use of public humiliation as punishment in her essay published in the “Boston Globe” on August 5, 2001 and is quiet daring for proving her argument by evidence acquired from her own expertise on shame and guilt. June Tangney, psychology educator and researcher born in New York, believes that there’s another way to punish a person rather than putting them behind bars.
One negative aspect of stereotypes is that they can be judgmental and limiting of persons as individuals. Persons can be judged by stereotypes and not allowed to just be who they are. There are negative things like racial profiling, and hate groups that develop around stereotypes. People can sometimes also begin to embrace and become the stereotypes in which they fall, given too much pressure or implication. Part III Define stereotypes and prejudice.