Theories Of Prejudice

Theories of Prejudice

Prejudice: is an unjustified or incorrect attitude (usually negative) towards an individual based solely on the individual’s membership of a social group, for example a person may hold prejudiced views towards a certain race or gender. A prejudiced person may not act on their attitude. So that means someone can be prejudice towards a certain group but not discrimate against them, an example of this was in the scene when the couple was walking down the street and as the two black man walked towards them she clinched her purse and held her husband even tighter. She judged them without even knowing what their intentions were. The interesting part was she was right and they need up carjacking them

Discrimination on the other

Example if a professor tells you that you have a test on Friday and you chose not to study till Thursday, you cannot but the blame on your professor if you fail. When you connect this theory to the movie Crash you see this theory in the scene when the family that owns the shop was robbed and they try and make an insurance claim they were denied coverage. In this situation there was more than one person that found a scapegoat. The insurance company blamed the owner for not fixing the door. The owner blamed the locksmith for not fixing the

It is a personal act of discrimination caused by certain negative attitudes toward another person. On the other end institutional discrimination is concerned with discrimination that has been incorporated into the structures, processes and procedures of organizations either because of prejudice or because of failure to take into account the needs of different social identities.

When speaking about individual the scene that best describes it is the scene with Sandra Bullocks character. When her and her husband are carjacked and she tells her husband that she wants the locks changed again in the morning because she was afraid that the Mexican male who was changing them would give his “homies” the key. She states he is a gang-banger because of his shaved head, prison tattoos and his pants around his ass” As far as an example of institutional discrimination in the movie, that would have to be the scene with Officer Ryan and his ailing father. When Officer Ryan calls the health insurance provider for help, and tries to explain his sickness to her, but she tells him there is nothing that can be done. Officer Ryan then starts to get upset with what she is saying, he asks for her name. Which happens to be Shaniqua Johnson. Which it so happens that Miss Johnson is black, at this point officer Ryan says of course your name is Shaniqua.