LP8 Assignment Discrimination

LP8 Assignment

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1. Prejudice is a negative attitude toward an entire category of people, often ethnic or racial minority. Discrimination is the denial of opportunities and equal right to individuals and groups because of prejudice. Even though prejudice can lead to discrimination, discrimination cannot lead to prejudice. This means that discrimination is based on someone’s prejudice against a certain race, but this prejudice has to be predisposition in the person’s mind to cause the discrimination to occur. A person does not just randomly start discriminating against a group of people, the need to discriminate has to already be in their mind.
2. There are many ways that individuals discriminate against other people. Discrimination can happen in the work place either by race, age, or sexuality and it can even happen in a school environment. Institutional discrimination refers to the denial of opportunities and equal rights to individuals and groups that results from the normal operations of a society. An example of institutional discrimination is when the Christian church was denying people of color to practice their religion on property. Even though the church has admitted that they were wrong in doing this and have apologized, it still does not fix the fact that they refused people to practice their religion.
3. The sociological perspective I decided to go with is the functionalist perspective. I believe that the functionalist perspective would not like the choices the Christian church made because the functionalists main goal is stability. I think that the choices the church made where the definition of unstable.

Schaefer, R. T. (2009). Sociology: A brief introduction. New York: McGraw-Hill.