 | Theodore M. Singelis - Psychology - 1998 - 272 pages
...stereotypes (Feagin, 1989; Williams, 1964). Prejudice is defined as "an avertive or hostile attitude toward a person who belongs to a group simply because...to that group and is therefore presumed to have the objectional qualities ascribed to the group" (Allport, 1958, p. 8). Individuals who make unsupported... | |
 | Martin Dillon - History - 1999 - 320 pages
...manner which is relevant to the situation in Northern Ireland: 'An avertive or hostile attitude towards a person who belongs to a group, simply because he...the objectionable qualities ascribed to that group.' He goes on to make the point that this represents an antipathy based on faulty and inflexible generalization.... | |
 | Giuseppe Mantovani - Political Science - 2000 - 168 pages
...individualistic orientation. In Allport's classic definition of prejudice as "an avertive or hostile attitude toward a person who belongs to a group, simply because he belongs to that group" (1954), prejudice is considered as a particular case of attitude, the case in which the member of a... | |
 | Bertram J. Cohler, Robert M. Galatzer-Levy - Psychology - 2000 - 539 pages
...definition, Allport observes that prejudice may be best understood as "an aversive or hostile attitude toward a person who belongs to a group, simply because he belongs to that group" (1954, 8). This attitude has been studied in terms both ot shared intergroup attitudes and of individual... | |
 | Gordon B. Moskowitz - Psychology - 2005 - 632 pages
...prejudice as "thinking ill of others without sufficient warrant. . . . An avertive or hostile attitude toward a person who belongs to a group, simply because he belongs to that group." It is a prejudgment, usually antipathy, that is difficult to overturn even in the face of evidence... | |
 | Kopano Ratele - Psychology - 2006 - 356 pages
...groups. This concern is manifest in the way the concept is defined: 'an avertive or hostile attitude to a person who belongs to a group, simply because he...the objectionable qualities ascribed to that group' (Allport, 1954: 7). Ethnic prejudice in turn is defined as 'antipathy based on a faulty and inflexible... | |
 | Joseph F. Healey, Eileen O'Brien - Social Science - 2007 - 505 pages
..."an avertive or hostile attitude toward a person who belongs to a group, simply because he (or she) belongs to that group, and is therefore presumed to have the objectionable qualities ascribed to the group" (Allport 1958:8). Prejudice thus refers to a set of rigidly held negative attitudes, beliefs,... | |
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So common is this process that we might define prejudice as: an avertive or hostile attitude toward a person who belongs to a group, simply because he belongs to that group, and is therefore presumed to have the objectionable qualities ascribed to the... 