Reducing Prejudice

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Discussion8

Conclusion10

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Reducing Prejudice

Introduction

This paper would be based on strategies which can be used to reduce prejudice. The study would be based on 5 articles which will be analyzed. The first study was by Elizabeth and Donald (2009) was based on the hypothesisthat under optimal conditions of shared goals, equal status, absence of competition, interaction and authority sanction between two groups will lead to reduce prejudice (Galen, Andrew, Jennifer, 2008). The initiatives facing the coexistence in the classroom should take into account the contact hypothesis, but a contact made in a proper context because the mere touch without prejudice does not reduce or change group stereotypes. The contact between groups should be informal as they can know each other without roles or hierarchies on equal social status. For example, in the classroom doing different workshops that are learned such as rhythms and dances of different cultures or which reconstruct the different costumes from around the world plus traditional food, games around the world, etc.

One can also make living activities together such as spend some time together doing activities of all kinds the main thing is to feel all one. Another feature of this contact is cooperation and interdependence. In this way you should find that children work towards the same goal and that everyone can be protagonists providing necessaries. They feel an important link in this way they all work together without discrimination. For example, promoting social relations of coexistence among the various cultures through techniques continue cooperative promotes values of tolerance and solidarity. For these interventions work should occur within a framework of social and institutional support (Shelton, Richeson, Salvatore, Trawalter, 2005). Where both principals, teachers and educational policies assume the importance of integration to end the discrimination.

Joshua Correll, Bernadette Park and J. Allegra Smith (2008) hypothesis for the study discusses that the group boundaries includes differences that arise from conflicts of interest and include explanation for perceived group differences. If conflict is considered to be fixed and is not changeable of the out groups, it is expected that individuals on both sides may abandon efforts of resolution and may begin to fight. The model of the common in-group identity was formulated by Tropp (2007) in the early 90s. The hypothesis of this model is that if it leads to different group members to imagine that are part of a single group and not separate groups, attitudes toward former out group members will become more positive due to a number of cognitive and motivational, among which include a tendency to favor the own group members (Tropp, 2007)

Another weapon against stereotypes is pluralistic strategy. It is working so that we conform to stereotypical beliefs, but seeing each as stereotypical characteristic of his own group and yet belonging to a larger group that includes and brings the benefit of their own characteristics and values. For example using the technique of puzzle but, rather than individuals, to groups within a larger group and have the same goal. This strategy is related to the ...