Is relationships between different groups of people An unreasonable dislike and distrust of people especially because of their race, gender, religion etc.
- In order to increase our self-image We can also increase our self-image by discriminating and holding prejudice views against the out group.
- Therefore we divided the world into “them” and “us” based through a process of social categorization.
The differences between group.
The similarities of things in the same group.
We categorize people in the same way. We see the group to which we belong (the in-group)
as being different from the others the (out-group), and members of the same group as being more similar than they are.
Social categorization is one explanation for prejudice attitudes. “them” and “us” mentality which leads to in-groups and out-groups.
Examples of In-groups – Out-groups
Northern Iceland Catholics – Protestants
Germany Jews and the Nazis
Football Liverpool and Man U
Gender Males and Females
Social Class Middle and Working Classes
Thailand red and yellow