Allport scale

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The Allport scale is a by Gordon Allport in his work The Nature of Prejudice (dt: The nature of prejudice) (1954) established "scale for the recording of prejudices in a society in a differentiation of discrimination according to levels".

The stages are described as follows:

  1. Defamation ( Antilocution ): Most people with prejudice also talk about it. They let their hostile feelings run wild towards like-minded people and occasionally also towards strangers.
  2. Avoidance : As the prejudice becomes stronger in one, he will avoid contact with members of the rejected group, even if he has to accept considerable inconvenience.
  3. Discrimination : The prejudice wants to keep all members of the rejected group away from certain professions, from certain residential areas, from political rights, educational and recreational opportunities and other social institutions.
  4. Physical use of violence : On condition of increased emotionality, the prejudice leads to different types of use of violence. Examples: Gravestones in Jewish cemeteries are desecrated. The Italian gang from the north quarter lies in wait to ambush the Irish gang from the south quarter.
  5. Annihilation : Lynch justice, pogroms , mass murders and genocide mark the highest level of violence through which the prejudice is expressed.

literature

  • Gordon W. Allport: The Nature of Prejudice. Perseus Books, ISBN 0201001799

Individual evidence

  1. Peter Watson: Psychology and Race , Aldine Publishing, 1st ed., 2007, pages 45 and 46

See also