All prejudice involves intergroup relations with a built-in ingroup preference

Evidence

Whatever definition of prejudice one endorses – and in this volume some diversity in this regard is plainly evident (see Eagly & Diekman’s ch. 2) – there is some agreement on two points. First, prejudice is ultimately an intergroup phenomenon. That is, it involves relations between a person’s (or people’s) ingroup and some outgroup(s). Second, prejudice carries with it an implication that the ingroup should be regarded or treated in some more favorable way than the outgroup. — John F. Dovidio, Peter Glick, Laurie A. Rudman, On the Nature of Prejudice, 421

Categorization

• DEFINE: Defines the two points of consensus about what prejudice fundamentally is.
• XREF: connects to: the MOC “The Enemy-Making Machine: Ours, True, and the Identity That Defends Both”