Prejudice and Discrimination

• Negative attitudes based on ridged, irrational, faulty generalizations.

• Actions that involve treating people unequally.

  Individual- person to person
  
  Institutional- Harmful practices of organizations also as a part of the social structure itself; a function of sociohistorical events.

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Prejudice involves attitudes, feelings, beliefs.

Discrimination involves actions.