Defining prejudice as antipathy blinds the field to paternalistic control forms

Evidence

Allport’s most fundamental blindspot concerns his definition of prejudice as “an antipathy based upon a faulty and inflexible generalization” (p. 9). Chapters by Eagly and Diekman, Jackman, and Rudman in the current volume explore how this definition has obscured important aspects of prejudice, both pragmatically and theoretically. Allport’s emphasis on antipathy directed the field toward types of prejudice that produce exclusion and violence, but it distracted the field from other types of bias involving more subtle types of control and exploitation (e.g., affectionate paternalism). — John F. Dovidio, Peter Glick, Laurie A. Rudman, On the Nature of Prejudice, 138

Allport’s most fundamental blindspot concerns his definition of prejudice as “an antipathy based upon a faulty and inflexible generalization” (p. 9). … Allport’s emphasis on antipathy directed the field toward types of prejudice that produce exclusion and violence, but it distracted the field from other types of bias involving more subtle types of control and exploitation (e.g., affectionate paternalism). — , Rudman, Laurie A - On the Nature of…, 138

Categorization

• XREF: Connects to the reader’s interest in how categories shape what a field can see — parallels Kuhn’s paradigms and Milgrom’s insights on institutions filling blind spots. — connects to: The distinctive new prejudice is interpreting subordinate demands as illegitimate pushiness — John T. Jost and Jim Sidanius, Political Psychology: Key Readings, 3415; the MOC “The Enemy-Making Machine: Ours, True, and the Identity That Defends Both”
• SEED: An essay angle: how definitional choices in a social-science field silently determine which harms get studied and which get ignored.
• DEFINE: Challenges the loaded definition of prejudice itself, arguing antipathy is far too narrow.
• corroborated: 3 independent passages support this claim — John F. Dovidio, Peter Glick, Laurie A. Rudman, On the Nature of Prejudice: Fifty Years…, 138; , Rudman, Laurie A - On the Nature of…, 138