Discrimination Worksheet
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Discrimination Worksheet
Write a 100- to 200-word response to each of the following questions. Provide citations for all the sources you use.
• What is discrimination? How is discrimination different from prejudice and stereotyping?
According to Schaefer, discrimination is the denial of opportunities and equal rights to individuals and groups because of prejudice or for other arbitrary reasons. Discrimination occurs due to prejudice, which is a negative attitude toward an entire category of people, such as a racial or ethnic minority. Stereotypes are unreliable generalizations about all members of a group that do not take individual differences into account. Discrimination is an act of denying individuals their rights due to another’s prejudice which is typically caused by stereotypes. While stereotypes and prejudice are negative attitudes and preconceived ideas of groups, discrimination is the resulting action due to them.
• What are the causes of discrimination?
Discrimination is caused by individual’s prejudice and stereotypes about minority groups. According to Simon Wright, discrimination is caused by ignorance, fear and sterototypical points of views. Most people get their views from the media. On television, newspapers, blogs, news websites, and social media sites we constantly air topics based off of politicians, religious leaders, and other influencial famous people. Some of these people may have biased views and many people following them will take their points as fact, without any research of their own. This causes so many issues that eventually lead to discrimination. I find that people want to get ahead of everyone else so they will use whatever is available to them to get the advantage. This could include using sterotypes to create prejudice and then discrimination in order to get themselves ahead of another individual who may be a part of a minority group.
• How is discrimination faced
Discrimination Worksheet
Write a 100- to 200-word response to each of the following questions. Provide citations for all the sources you use.
• What is discrimination? How is discrimination different from prejudice and stereotyping?
According to Schaefer, discrimination is the denial of opportunities and equal rights to individuals and groups because of prejudice or for other arbitrary reasons. Discrimination occurs due to prejudice, which is a negative attitude toward an entire category of people, such as a racial or ethnic minority. Stereotypes are unreliable generalizations about all members of a group that do not take individual differences into account. Discrimination is an act of denying individuals their rights due to another’s prejudice which is typically caused by stereotypes. While stereotypes and prejudice are negative attitudes and preconceived ideas of groups, discrimination is the resulting action due to them.
• What are the causes of discrimination?
Discrimination is caused by individual’s prejudice and stereotypes about minority groups. According to Simon Wright, discrimination is caused by ignorance, fear and sterototypical points of views. Most people get their views from the media. On television, newspapers, blogs, news websites, and social media sites we constantly air topics based off of politicians, religious leaders, and other influencial famous people. Some of these people may have biased views and many people following them will take their points as fact, without any research of their own. This causes so many issues that eventually lead to discrimination. I find that people want to get ahead of everyone else so they will use whatever is available to them to get the advantage. This could include using sterotypes to create prejudice and then discrimination in order to get themselves ahead of another individual who may be a part of a minority group.
• How is discrimination faced
References: Wright, S. (2013) Causes of Discrimination Retrieved from http://www.life123.com/parenting/education/social-studies/causes-of-discrimination.shtml Schaefer, R. (2012) Racial and Ethnic Groups (13th Ed.) Merrill Prentice Hall