The Reduction of Prejudice.

... Emma Gregory 18th Oct. 2003 The Reduction of Prejudice It is prejudice that I am concerned with and ways that you can reduce it in order to stop discrimination happening. To stop prejudice attitudes increasing we need to get rid of the idea of stereotyping people in a bad way. Below is a list of ways in which prejudice can be, and has tried, to be reduced. ? Enforced contact Deustch and Collins (1951) looked at two housing estate- one where black and white residents live separately and another where they lived together. The study showed that prejudice remained the same, or increased, in the separate housing, whereas it decreased on the estate where they lived together. ? Legislated desegregation In 1954, when the Supreme Court declared segregation unconstitutional in a case, Social Psychologists argued that equal status would be necessary to eliminate false stereotypes. It provided the opportunity for prejudices to be looked at but instead

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