5 docs tagged with "discrimination"

Comprehensive study of prejudice—its definition, key characteristics, and major types including racial, sex, caste, language, and religious prejudice, with modern research and Indian context.

In-depth analysis of discrimination as a social process, and the causal/maintenance factors of prejudice—including structural, historical, situational, and psychodynamic explanations.

Comprehensive coverage of how prejudice manifests behaviourally (withdrawal to extermination) and evidence-based methods to reduce prejudice: intergroup contact, education, legislation, and personality change.

Comprehensive answers to all previous year questions on Prejudice and Discrimination in MPC-004 Advanced Social Psychology (36 appearances, 2011–2024)

Understand the nature and characteristics of stereotypes, how they develop and are maintained, their functions in social life, and how they differ from prejudice and discrimination.