Prejudice is formed and reproduced socially, not through internal psychological processes.

Evidence

The last chapter of the book ( Chapter 8 ) advances the idea that the answers to the quandaries posed by the study of prejudices more generally and against the Roma, in particular, do not lie in identifying the similarities or differences that divide various schools of thought or models of social change. The answers must be sought in social scientifi c frameworks that propose and foster a deeper and more meaningful dimension of social and cultural analysis and critique. There is a need for a renewed social psychology of racism, one that can move beyond existing theoretical and empirical models that attempt to explain social and ideological processes and power relations in terms of internal psychological processes, or posit the inevitability and/or the universality of prejudice and racism, without taking into consideration the specifi c ways in which prejudices are formed and reproduced socially, their symbolic weight and their infl uence on different forms of social and political organization and social responses to social problems. — Cristian Tileagă, The Nature of Prejudice, 93

Categorization

• SEED: An essay angle: why psychological models of racism fail to explain how prejudice is accomplished socially and symbolically, using European Roma as the case.
• XREF: Relates to the reader’s interest in how claims ground in concrete cases; this criticizes purely psychological accounts of prejudice in favor of social reproduction.

Related

• Prejudices are actively accomplished and sustained rather than passively held. (similarity 0.87)
• Anti-Roma prejudice resists explanation as individual psychological bias (similarity 0.86)
• Prejudice is public harm to esteem, not merely private attitude (similarity 0.85)
• Prejudice is explained by societal characteristics, not only individual traits (similarity 0.83)
• Prejudice research cannot be reduced to individual psychology (similarity 0.83)
• Roma are degraded and reminded of their degraded status (similarity 0.82)
• Racism against Romani people is the last acceptable prejudice in Europe (similarity 0.81)
• Anti-Roma prejudice is far more complex than direct hostility (similarity 0.81)
• Progressively-framed European institutions can still reproduce the racism they disavow. (similarity 0.81)
• Understanding stubborn prejudice requires turning to sociology, history, and anthropology (similarity 0.81)
• Prejudices against Roma are among the last socially acceptable prejudices (similarity 0.81)
• Understanding prejudice requires cultural, not merely psychological, analysis (similarity 0.80)
• Society’s creed and norms explain prejudice better than any single theory (similarity 0.80)
• Roma persecution predates and underpins modern racism as a historical phenomenon (similarity 0.79)
• Prejudices cannot be understood apart from a society’s history and contradictions (similarity 0.79)