Prejudiced talk is woven into broad societal assumptions about who merits equal treatment

Evidence

However, one cannot understand the grounds of co-conversationalists’ orientations to the social acceptability of prejudices without also taking into account that prejudiced talk is intricately woven with macro-level societal assumptions about what is acceptable, who is entitled to and worthy of equal treatment, and what are the bounds of rational and reasonable behaviour towards others. — Cristian Tileagă, The Nature of Prejudice, 514

Categorization

• XREF: Connects to the reader’s work on sacrifice and social stratification: perceived worth of a group underwrites both ritual exclusion and everyday discrimination. — connects to: The most revealing social facts are the assumptions both sides take for granted — Samuel Bowles and Herbert Gintis, Schooling in Capitalist America:…, 1045

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• Society’s creed and norms explain prejudice better than any single theory (similarity 0.79)
• Prejudice should be studied as collective societal thinking rather than only individual psychology (similarity 0.79)
• Prejudice magnifies real group differences, not imagined ones (similarity 0.79)
• Whether perceived group differences are accurate remains an open research question (similarity 0.78)
• Pervasive prejudice still takes distinct forms across different societies (similarity 0.78)
• Prejudiced people mostly manage inner conflict by vacillating between values (similarity 0.78)