scapegoat
Today, a “scapegoat” is someone unfairly blamed for the mistakes or wrongdoing of others, a meaning that seems to have little to do with goats. But the word’s origins are quite literal, tracing back to an ancient Jewish atonement ritual.
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According to this view, authoritarian personalities develop in childhood in response to parents who practice harsh discipline. Individuals with authoritarian personalities emphasize such things as obedience to authority, a rigid adherence to rules, and low acceptance of people (out-groups) not like oneself. Many studies find strong racial and ethnic prejudice among such individuals
CHARACTERISTICS OF AN AUTHORITARIAN PERSONALITY: emphasize obedience to authority, a rigid adherence to rules, and low acceptance of people. Many studies find strong racial and prejudice among such individuals.
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Theories of prejudice fall into two camps, social-psychological and sociological. We will look at social-psychological explanations first and then turn to sociological explanations. We will also discuss distorted mass media treatment of various racial and ethnic groups.
THEORIES OF PREDUJICE FALL INTO TWO CATEGORIES: SOCIAL-PSYCHOLOGICAL AND SOCIOLOGICAL.
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and ethnicity have torn at the fabric of American society ever since the time of Christopher Columbus, when about 1 million Native Americans were thought to have populated the eventual United States. By 1900, their numbers had dwindled to about 240,000, as tens of thousands were killed by white settlers and U.S. troops and countless others died from disease contracted from people with European backgrounds. Scholars have said that this mass killing of Native Americans amounted to genocide (J. Wilson, 1999).
race and ethnicity have torn at the fabric of American Society ever since the time of Christopher Columbus
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