Allport himself saw society and culture as shaping moral worth

Evidence

Because I am a social psychologist I gave priority to a central social psychological theme – the idea that problems of prejudice and hostility in society are irreducible to fl awed reasoning, irrational propensities and/or attitudinal negativity. In writing this book I returned to one of the classics of the fi eld – Gordon W. Allport’s The Nature of Prejudice ( 1954 ). The title, but also, more importantly, the spirit of this book is indebted to that wonderful tome, which contains some of the most productive paradoxes of social psychology. Although Allport is rightly seen as the father of cognitive studies of prejudice, he was also very much aware that it is society and cultural assumptions that can alter or transform our own ideas about other people’s moral worth, our evaluations of their vulnerability and our judgements about society’s role in oppression. — Cristian Tileagă, The Nature of Prejudice, 42

Categorization

• XREF: Direct lineage to Allport’s The Nature of Prejudice — the source this book is titled after and reframing.

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