Prejudice and stereotyping.

Prejudice, stereotyping, and discrimination are three closely related but distinct phenomena. Prejudice is literally a “prejudgment”—a belief about something or someone that is based on assumptions rather than on actual experiences. Strictly speaking, a prejudice may be either for or against something, but in common usage it refers to a dislike of all the members of a particular group, such as a racial, ethnic, religious, gender, or age group. Sociologist Gordon Allport Allport, Gordon defined prejudice as “an antipathy based upon a faulty and inflexible generalization.” A crucial point is that a prejudice is an attitude, not a behavior. Prejudice Stereotype Discrimination Prejudice and stereotyping