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Prejudiced Places: How Contexts Shape Inequality and How Policy Can Change Them

Year: 2018

Type: article

Abstract: Psychological theories often locate the problem of prejudice within people. However, prejudice stems from both people and places. Prejudiced contexts are places with predictable, systematic inequalities in experience and outcomes based on people’s social group memberships—advantaging people from some social groups, while disadvantaging people from others. The prejudice-in-places model illuminates sources of inequality that would otherwise be overlooked and suggests novel avenues for intervention. By understanding how norms, values, policies, practices, and procedures can create prejudiced places, leaders and policymakers can intentionally debias environments so that members of all social groups can flourish in educational and organizational settings.

Source: Policy Insights from the Behavioral and Brain Sciences

DOI: 10.1177/2372732217748671

Authors: Mary C. Murphy, Kathryn M. Kroeper, Elise M. Ozier

Institution: Indiana University Bloomington

Language: English

Topic: Social and Intergroup Psychology

Subfield: Sociology and Political Science

Field: Social Sciences

Domain: Social Sciences

SDG: Reduced inequalities

Open Access status: bronze

Funder: National Science Foundation