Prejudice is sustained through routine conversational identity categorization

Evidence

For instance, conversation-analytic studies (Speer and Potter, 2000 ; Stokoe and Edwards, 2007 ) show how prejudice is sustained by routine conversational practices. Stokoe and Edwards ( 2007 ) and Stokoe ( 2009 ) show how members of society employ identity categories to talk about each other, and how social actions (such as blaming, accusing, discounting or diffusing responsibility, complaining, etc.) are actions done by using identity categories. Identity categories organize, and distill, complex cultural knowledge about appropriate, or expected, behaviours of others. — Cristian Tileagă, The Nature of Prejudice, 508

Categorization

• XREF: Connects to Sacks’ membership categorization analysis and to moral exclusion — categorizing others as ‘complainable’ is a step toward excluding them morally. — connects to: Ethnic prejudices are reproduced primarily through everyday conversation — David Theo Goldberg, John Solomos, A Companion to Racial and Ethnic Studies, 1074; the MOC “The Wound of the Label: When Knowing Someone Becomes a Way of Erasing Them”

Related

• Prejudice is primary; categorization only serves it (similarity 0.83)
• Ethnic prejudices are reproduced primarily through everyday conversation (similarity 0.83)
• Understanding prejudice requires locating attitudes in collective symbolic contexts (similarity 0.81)
• Categorization and identity processes will outlast the elimination of prejudice (similarity 0.81)
• Categorization is an unavoidable cognitive basis for prejudgment. (similarity 0.81)
• Prejudice arises from group identities rather than individual psychology (similarity 0.80)
• Recategorizing at broader levels can reduce intergroup prejudice. (similarity 0.80)
• Prejudice should be studied as collective societal thinking rather than only individual psychology (similarity 0.79)
• Prejudice is routinely expressed through simultaneous denial in casual talk (similarity 0.79)
• Categorization processes facilitate the harm of prejudice (similarity 0.79)
• Social categories carry emotion and resist contradictory evidence in the mind (similarity 0.79)
• Recategorization to inclusive identities like shared humanity can reduce prejudice (similarity 0.78)
• Categorization itself is not the problem; prejudice drives stereotypes, not vice versa. (similarity 0.78)
• Once categorized, group members are assumed similar within and different across categories (similarity 0.78)
• Prejudice is explained by societal characteristics, not only individual traits (similarity 0.78)