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