Sociology › Section K · Race and ethnicity › Topic K.3
Prejudice, discrimination, and racism
Psychology asks how one person comes to hold a biased attitude. Sociology adds a harder question: how can unequal outcomes by race persist even when few people say they want them? The answer lies in how prejudice, discrimination and racism work through institutions as well as individuals.
In this topic
- From attitudes to structures
- Merton's four types
- Individual and institutional discrimination
- Forms of racism
- Colour-blind racism
- Privilege and its critics
- Redlining and the wealth gap
- Worked example: applying Merton's types
- Worked example: reading an audit study
- Common mistakes to avoid
- Key takeaways
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