Rethinking the prejudice problematic: a collaborative cognition approach

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from Part I - Beyond prejudice

Published online by Cambridge University Press: 05 June 2012

Susan Condor and

Lia Figgou

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John Dixon and

Mark Levine

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Susan Condor: Affiliation:
Lancaster University
Lia Figgou: Affiliation:
Aristotle University, Thessaloniki
John Dixon: Affiliation:
Lancaster University
Mark Levine: Affiliation:
University of Exeter

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Prejudice is understood as the human individuals’ psychological tendency to make unfavorable evaluations about members of other social groups.

Ibanez et al. (2009, p. 81)

It blunts the thinking to speak of the participants in the social scene as ‘individuals’.

Asch (1952, p. 180)

The vagueness of prejudice

As Pawlik and d’Ydewalle (2006) have noted, psychologists generally tend to refer to their research objects in common-language terminology. Consequently, authors of academic texts often start out by providing formal definitions of any key terms in order to establish a clear boundary between their own scientific understanding and the imprecise, inaccurate, forms of conceptualization typical of ‘mere’ common sense (cf. Billig, 1990; Shapin, 2001). Social psychological work on prejudice is, of course, no exception, and most authors offer their readers a definition of the term ‘prejudice’, which they typically distinguish from purportedly less accurate or precise everyday uses of the word.

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Information: Beyond Prejudice
Extending the Social Psychology of Conflict, Inequality and Social Change
, pp. 200 - 222

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