Reducing prejudice and discrimination

Reducing prejudice and discrimination

Use the online library to find one peer-reviewed journal article no more than five years old that examines a practical approach to reduce prejudice and discrimination based on race, ethnicity, or nationality.

 Practical approach to reduce prejudice and discrimination

Use the online library to find one peer-reviewed journal article no more than five years old that examines a practical approach to reduce prejudice and discrimination based on race, ethnicity, or nationality.

Firstly, Describe the research. What was the research question, what approach was use d to attempt to reduce prejudice/discrimination?

Secondly, What were the groups involved?

Thirdly, What was the outcome – that is, did the approach work?

3) Imagine you are a sociologist. You wish to apply the approach from the article to reduce prejudice and discrimination, but in a different context.

Further, How would you apply the approach to a different group. Or in a different location. Or circumstance than is given in the article?

Lastly, What changes would you make from the authors’ approach, and why?

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Prejudice-Reduction Interventions

Having summarised some of the important theoretical contributions to prejudice-reduction, I will now present a summary of the main types of interventions with evidence on effectiveness, drawing on case studies and suggesting some principles which may be usefully applied elsewhere. Again it is vital to note that the case studies are not intend ed to be directly applicable to prejudice-reduction in Scotland. For instance, some of them talk about successful interventions to improve inter-group relations in post-conflict societies, which may be dealing with tensions that often spills over into actual (violent) conflict, and we may also assume that these are likely to be more ‘reactive’ than preventative. However, it may be appropriate to apply some of the ‘universal principles’ emerging from these to future strategies.

For the purposes of summary and analysis, the interventions that are most frequently studied and that are useful for this report can be roughly divided into three categories:

1. Educational strategies (including but not limited to school-based interventions)
2. Short-term diversity training courses
3. Media campaigns