Individual-difference theories cannot explain how prejudice reproduces as collective ideology

Evidence

Explaining prejudice in the way that Adorno et al . intended – through individual differences between people – fails to capture not only why, but how prejudices reproduce themselves at broader cultural, societal and historical levels, and may persist as ruling collective ideology in certain societies. — Cristian Tileagă, The Nature of Prejudice, 289

Categorization

• XREF: Parallels the reviewer’s standing interest in how small acts and system-level structures, rather than individual character, sustain social arrangements. — connects to: Avowals of egalitarianism signal hidden prejudice even under conservative tests — Drew S. Jacoby-Senghor and Michael Rosenblum and N. Derek Brown, Not all egalitarianism is created…, 87; Prejudice theory flattened racism into individual attitudes, erasing structural dimensions — David Theo Goldberg, John Solomos, A Companion to Racial and Ethnic Studies, 1318; the MOC “The Wound of the Label: When Knowing Someone Becomes a Way of Erasing Them” (+2 more)

Related

• Prejudice should be studied as collective societal thinking rather than only individual psychology (similarity 0.85)
• Understanding prejudice requires locating attitudes in collective symbolic contexts (similarity 0.84)
• Prejudice arises from group identities rather than individual psychology (similarity 0.84)
• Prejudice theory flattened racism into individual attitudes, erasing structural dimensions (similarity 0.84)
• Prejudice research cannot be reduced to individual psychology (similarity 0.83)
• Prejudice is explained by societal characteristics, not only individual traits (similarity 0.83)
• Individual-difference and intergroup approaches to prejudice have remained disconnected since Allport. (similarity 0.82)
• Prejudice magnifies real group differences, not imagined ones (similarity 0.81)
• Whether perceived group differences are accurate remains an open research question (similarity 0.81)
• Pervasive prejudice still takes distinct forms across different societies (similarity 0.81)
• All prejudice involves intergroup relations with a built-in ingroup preference (similarity 0.81)
• Individual and intergroup theories of prejudice may share underlying motivational mechanisms. (similarity 0.80)
• Prejudice measures index ideologies, not psychopathology (similarity 0.80)
• Prejudice is an interpretive concept lacking fixed definition (similarity 0.80)
• No single theory can fully explain racism and ethnocentrism. (similarity 0.80)