Prejudice is public harm to esteem, not merely private attitude

Evidence

In liberal democratic societies the line separating dignity from indignity is precarious. The instances of anti-Roma racism recounted in this book point to the idea that racism is not simply a matter of negative attitudes and/or fl awed psychology. Allport also recognized that prejudices are a ‘prime source of suffering and disvalue’ (Allport, 1960 , p. 225). Researching prejudices as a source of disvalue implies researching public, not private, prejudices, especially those prejudices whose consequences take the form of an explicit or implicit attempt to transform or diminish people’s social esteem and worth. — Cristian Tileagă, The Nature of Prejudice, 744

Related

• Prejudice is explained by societal characteristics, not only individual traits (similarity 0.86)
• Prejudice is formed and reproduced socially, not through internal psychological processes. (similarity 0.85)
• Understanding prejudice requires cultural, not merely psychological, analysis (similarity 0.85)
• Prejudices are actively accomplished and sustained rather than passively held. (similarity 0.84)
• Not all prejudices are alike; each is culturally situated (similarity 0.83)
• Society’s creed and norms explain prejudice better than any single theory (similarity 0.83)
• Prejudice is an interpretive concept lacking fixed definition (similarity 0.83)
• Anti-Roma prejudice resists explanation as individual psychological bias (similarity 0.82)
• Allport himself saw society and culture as shaping moral worth (similarity 0.82)
• Pervasive prejudice still takes distinct forms across different societies (similarity 0.82)
• Understanding prejudice requires locating attitudes in collective symbolic contexts (similarity 0.82)
• Prejudices cannot be understood apart from a society’s history and contradictions (similarity 0.82)
• Prejudice research cannot be reduced to individual psychology (similarity 0.82)
• Prejudice arises from group identities rather than individual psychology (similarity 0.82)
• Prejudices arising from denying moral worth need societal analysis (similarity 0.81)