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This article explores the epistemology of prejudice. Prejudice is first defined and examined from the perspective of intergroup relations theory in an attempt to learn more about the origins and methods of knowing about other groups. The second part of the article suggests that recent intergroup research raises fundamental questions about the role of objectivity in studying and managing prejudice. It goes so far as to suggest that our unwillingness to examine our assumptions about objectivity creates barriers to understanding prejudice in academia and managing it in organizations.

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Sociological research on racial prejudice has generated consistent and reliable empirical findings on the social determinants of prejudice, but comprehensive theoretical explanations of the social forces that promote prejudice tend to be controversial. Two such theoretical perspectives are examined and then compared for their ability to explain prejudice; namely Durkheim's theory of cognition and the neoevolutionist approach to sociocultural modernization and ontogenetic maturation. An attempt also is made to merge the interactionist and evolutionist arguments for the purpose of developing a comprehensive explanation of prejudice.

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Cover -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Table of Contents -- List of Figures and Table -- Preface: How to Live With Prejudices -- Introduction Aleida Assmann -- Chapter 1: Anti-Semitism Werner Bergmann -- Chapter 2: Sexism and Heterosexism Susan T. Fiske and Alyssa L. Norris -- Chapter 3: Sick, Old, Handicapped: Waste or Treasure of Society? Dietlinde Gipser -- Chapter 4: Religious Prejudice Rainer Kampling -- Chapter 5: Racism Klaus Ottomeyer -- Chapter 6: When Globalization and Immigration Mediate Class Violence: Exploitation and Resistance Saskia Sassen -- Chapter 7: Prejudices from the Perspective of History and Art History Studies Wolfgang Benz and Peter Widmann -- Chapter 8: Prejudices and Group-Focused Enmity: A Sociofunctional Perspective Andreas Zick, Beate Küpper, and Wilhelm Heitmeyer -- Chapter 9: The Social Psychology of Prejudice Rhiannon N. Turner and Miles Hewstone -- Chapter 10: Science under the Spell of Prejudice? The Example of the Biosciences Dietmar Mieth -- Chapter 11: The Overcoming of Prejudice in the Legal Order Marta Hodasz, Manfred Nowak, and Constanze Pritz -- Chapter 12: Prejudice, Racism, and Discourse Ruth Wodak -- Conclusion: Towards a Comprehensive View on Prejudice Karin Bischof and Karin Stögner -- List of Contributors -- Index.

People are motivated to protect their worldviews. One way to protect one's worldviews is through prejudice toward worldview-dissimilar groups and individuals. The traditional hypothesis predicts that people with more traditional and conservative worldviews will be more likely to protect their worldviews with prejudice than people with more liberal and progressive worldviews, whereas the worldview conflict hypothesis predicts that people with both traditional and liberal worldviews will be protect their worldviews through prejudice. We review evidence across both political and religious domains, as well as evidence using disgust sensitivity, Big Five personality traits, and cognitive ability as measures of individual differences historically associated with prejudice. We discuss four core findings that are consistent with the worldview conflict hypothesis: (1) The link between worldview conflict and prejudice is consistent across worldviews. (2) The link between worldview conflict and prejudice is found across various expressions of prejudice. (3) The link between worldview conflict and prejudice is found in multiple countries. (4) Openness, low disgust sensitivity, and cognitive ability—traits and individual differences historically associated with less prejudice—may in fact also show evidence of worldview conflict. We discuss how worldview conflict may be rooted in value dissimilarity, identity, and uncertainty management, as well as potential routes for reducing worldview conflict.