Prejudice is multidetermined with no single variable explaining it

Evidence

The Nature of Prejudice does not offer – nor does it pretend to offer – a grand theory of prejudice. Allport repeatedly made the point that prejudice is a multidetermined phenomenon that can be analyzed at many different levels (e.g., historical, cultural, situational, and individual). Furthermore, he made clear, at any one of those levels, no one variable or process can totally account for the existence or intensity of prejudice. — , Rudman, Laurie A - On the Nature of…, 2339

Categorization

• XREF: Connects to the general theme throughout this book that Allport resisted single-cause explanations of prejudice.